You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

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

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.