Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.