Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

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

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

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