About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

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

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.