27 quotes
Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
The Clowns of God (1981)
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
The Clowns of God (1981)
The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.
Eminence (1998)
In Switzerland everything that is not forbidden is legal.
Masterclass (1988)
Religion is the good you do in the bad times.
The Ringmaster (1991)
Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.
The Ringmaster (1991)
In a marriage you need 'compatibility of conscience'.
Masterclass (1988)
That's what faith is about — living with paradox.
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
After a death, you eat and drink and remember the good things and try to laugh again. Grief profits no one, least of all the departed, who are quit of it for ever.
Masterclass (1988)
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
The Heretic (1968)
I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
The Heretic (1968)
When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.
The Ringmaster (1991)
You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.
The Ringmaster (1991)
You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.
The Heretic (1968)
It doesn't matter what we believe about God. It's what He knows about us.
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
"Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
The Clowns of God (1981)
We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.
Cassidy (1986)
Every tribe in the world had its own version of the scapegoat, marked for exile or persecution when the homefolk needed to purge themselves of their own guilts.
The Ringmaster (1991)
My father used to say that we surrendered our youth to purchase wisdom. What he never told me was how badly we get cheated on the exchange rate!
The Lovers (1993)
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.