The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.