Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.