It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.