To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Very dangerous things, theories.