Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.