When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

A fragment comes and lingers from an old Christian hymn, 'You've got to cross that lonesome valley.' It carries him forward. 'You've got to cross it by yoursel…

The Quality, the arete he has fought so hard for, has sacrificed for, has never betrayed, but in all that time has never once understood, now makes itself clea…

Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is…

The definition of self-respect contains a clause to include pitiless contempt for some other class. ... English society is impregnated from top to bottom with …

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…

'I fear God and if He is there for me, who else can be against me.' (10 June 2005, Explaining his refusal to have police protection or bodyguards, despite thre…