The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb," yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

No kingdom has ever suffered as many civil wars as Christ's.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.