Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Official history is believing the murderers at their word.
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.