The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran. To be Jewish means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Torah, and so forth.
It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.
But the basic principle that we're gonna have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is gonna have to support some banks, that others that are not - not viable, essentially that we're gonna have to - do something with those assets.