The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

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

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.