It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.