The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.