Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.
I think we must attack – wherever we meet it – the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbour in relation to God.
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere “opiate of the people” have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
Man must endure his going hence.
Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?