To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.