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

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.