Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.