We read to know we are not alone.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

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

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.