some people want just, to sit back and watch the world burn.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

E.M.Bounds

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Terry Pratchett

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

C.S. Lewis

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Donald Harington

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Nancy Sinatra

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Jayne Crook

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

G. K. Chesterton

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

Leo Tolstoy

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Neil Gaiman

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

William Ellery Channing