This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
Man is emphatically self-made.
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.