All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Atheism is too theological.