He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die