In The Sphere Of Religion, As In

Paganism Is That View Of Life Which Finds The Highest Goal Of Human Existence In The Healthy And Harmonious And Joyous Development Of Existing Human Faculties. Very Different Is The Christian Ideal. Paganism Is Optimistic With Regard To Unaided Human Nature, Whereas Christianity Is The Religion Of The Broken Heart.

Just Supposing For The Sake Of The Argument That There Is A Being Of Such A Kind As That He May With Any Propriety Be Called "god", It Does Seem Antecedently Very Improbable That Weak And Limited Creatures Of A Day, Such As We Are, Should Discover Him By Our Own Efforts.... Who Could Be Discovered In That Way Would Hardly Be Worth Discovering. I Think We Ought To Stick To That Principle Rather Firmly. I Think We Ought To Be Rather Sure That We Cannot Know God Unless God Has Been Pleased To Reveal Himself To Us.

A Low View Of Law Always Produces Legalism; A High View Of Law Makes A Person A Seeker After Grace.

The Type Of Religion Which Rejoices In The Pious Sound Of Traditional Phrases, Regardless Of Their Meanings, Or Shrinks From "controversial" Matters, Will Never Stand Amid The Shocks Of Life.

Christ Died"--that Is History; "christ Died For Our Sins"--that Is Doctrine. Without These Two Elements, Joined In An Absolutely Indissoluble Union, There Is No Christianity.