too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.