Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

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.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

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.