If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?

He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.

The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

See yourself in everything and everything in yourself. This is Oneness.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

And right now, you two jackwagons are right in the middle of my living room and I'm coming to take out the trash.

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.

I spot detail quickly.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.