There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.