More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, “The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart.”

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you’ll deny that you ever loved like this before.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he’ll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

If you’re not living I mean really living, you’re dead already.

We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man’s behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don’t. Your intuition is not stupid.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God’s enemies.

There was no one left to speak for me.