Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins