Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."

Silence is an ornament for women.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success.

The heart is its own Fate.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

The word is now a virus.