Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is.
The Christian “doctrines” are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
I wish we didn’t live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don’t.
The absent are easily refuted.
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.