If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.