The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.