“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”

“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”

“Are you a devil?""I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.”

“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.”

“I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.”