The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.