Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.