There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.