A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

Only man had dignity only man, therefore, can be funny.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.