There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

There is no little enemy.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.

Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 It is the Church's mission to confront the world from the Godward side of life with the Christian principles of a free and just society. The dignity, the value, and the importance of every individual are made abundantly clear by the Son of God. He has shown us what human life is intended to be, and we must be willing to stand against whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of the world, or of any segment of it.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.