Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
I long to kiss the image of my death.
There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.
No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.
Do not quarrel. . . with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. . . . There is no such thing as neutrality.