You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.