A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.