A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing that they owe their cure to Christ.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere - "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and strategems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think of anybody to thank for it.

Christians sometimes live as practical atheists, professing belief in Christ but without any real conviction that God exists as a person.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think that this watch exists and has no Watchmaker.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Christianity is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true -- not even that the right doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, "I believe the food exists; I believe it is real," and yet never eating it. It is not enough merely to say, "I am a Christian," and then in practice to live as if present contact with the supernatural were something far off and strange. Many Christians I know seem to act as though they come in contact with the supernatural just twice -- once when they are justified and become a Christian and once when they die. The rest of the time they act as though they were sitting in the materialist's chair. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 134

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death are to him haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Our twentieth century, far from being notable for scientific scepticism, is one of the most credulous eras in all history. It is not that people believe in nothing - which would be bad enough - but that they believe in anything - which is really terrible.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.