Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.