Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.