You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.

Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.