I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.