In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.