If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.