We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.