Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.

Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.

At the end of things, The Blessed will say, We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven. And the lost will say, We were always in Hell. And both will speak truly.

I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.