It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. - William Ralph Inge

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.