Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Am I lost or just less found?

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

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).