In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.