Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

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.

The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.