Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.