Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.