I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.