If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

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

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.