All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."