I was with book, as a woman is with child.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.