The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.