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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
