What They Said

“Real love is not passive; because one cannot feel it without being ready to fight for it.”

“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.”

“We do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a Church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a Gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news; not elevating news or improving news.”

“We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.”

“Our whole civilization is indeed very like the Titanic; alike in its power and its impotence, its security and its insecurity.”

“I do believe in Christianity, and my impression is that a system must be divine which has survived so much insane mismanagement.”

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”

"We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.”

"It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

"When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”

"We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong."

"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice."

"The test of happiness is gratitude."

"God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else."

"Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical."

"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."

"The past is not what it was."