For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.