In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
I don’t think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question “Why?”
The only people I’ve met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn’t either interest me or frighten me, but that’s because I don’t, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man’s existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
It’s a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
The only thing that really teaches one what life’s about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies – is suffering, affliction.
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.