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

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.