The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--