It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

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

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.