One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

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.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.