Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)