I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it has disappeared in its political and social manifestations as far as I can see.

I think that religions must seek peace and love and therefore be pacifist.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and perhaps most of all Nicholas Berdyaev and in my travels I looked for one thing more than anything. I rarely discussed, probably mainly because of language difficulties, metaphysics with the various religious people of other groups I'd meet with. But I'd very much try to see how they were incarnated, how their particular soul was incarnated or took roots into reality.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.