Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.