I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

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.

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'