As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

The generality of men are naturally swayed more by fear than by reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly