If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Jump and the net will appear.

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.