Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

Provided there is a church which proclaims the mutual humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, evil will never be able to bring it to the point of attrition.

There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.