The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.