Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.