We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

You'll be tested every single day.

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.