When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

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