History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.