Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.