Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

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

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.