Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.