There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.