Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.