If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.