The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.