It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.