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.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.