That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.