An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.