Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
While intellectually you are giants, morally you are pygmies.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense?
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
