All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.