I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.