The supreme adventure is being BORN.
People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
There are many ways to fall down, but there’s only one way to stand up straight.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.