Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

"Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of cataracts!" An angel who had been O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled, And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

I have a fear of being boring.

Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

Let but the commons hear this testament, Which I do not mean to read, And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Upon their issue.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.

But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

[The entire Old Testament] ground-plan is the whole scheme of Messianic prophecy, from the germinal revelation in Genesis concerning the suffering, yet triumphant Seed of the Woman to the coming to His Temple of the long-absent "Angel of the Covenant" in Malachi. That hope alone explains the Book, giving meaning and consistency to its story. Was it a chimera, an hallucination? According to the prophecy of Micah, the messianic Shepherd of Israel had to be born in Bethlehem. It is unthinkable that an heir to the throne of David could be born in Bethlehem now, and be also able to prove his legitimacy by documentary evidence. The event must clearly have taken place already, or Micah is a false prophet, a raiser of false hopes, along with the other writers in the Old Testament.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.