A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

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.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.