I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.