He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.