Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.