To Be Happy Is Not The Purpose

The Moral System Of The Universe Is Like A Document Written In Alternate Ciphers, Which Change From Line To Line.

I Am Convinced With Plato , With St. Paul, With St. Augustine, With Calvin , And With Leibnitz, That This Universe, And Every Smallest Portion Of It, Exactly Fulfils The Purpose For Which Almighty God Designed It.

Sacrifice Is The First Element Of Religion, And Resolves Itself In Theological Language Into The Love Of God.

Minds Vary In Sensitiveness And In Self-power, As Bodies Do In Susceptibility Of Attraction And Repulsion. When, When Shall We Learn That They Are Governed By Laws As Inexorable As Physical Laws, And That A Man Can As Easily Refuse To Obey What Has Power Over Him As A Steel Atom Can Resist The Magnet?

That In These Times Every Serious Person Should Not In His Heart Have Felt Some Difliculty With The Doctrines Of The Incarnation, I Cannot Helieve. We Are Not As We Were. When Christianity Was First Published, The Imagination Of Mankind Presented The Relation Of Heaven To Earth Very Differently From What It Does Now.