Christ came bringing with him the knowledge that God was not a demon, but a being of infinite goodness—that the service required of mankind was not a… - James Anthony Froude

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.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

How true it is that arguments have only power over us while the temper is disposed to listen to them!