Theology is only thought applied to religion.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.