You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.