The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.