What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.