Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.