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As many theologians have helpfully described, there is a healthy place for doubting that is integral to faith. When approached thoughtfully and sincerely, these doubts can lead to a deepening understa...

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

[The pure in heart are] the single-minded, who are free from the tyranny of a divided self.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest...

The discrepancy between the depth and sanity, and (let me add) shrewdness, of his moral teaching and the rampant megalomania which must lie behind his theological teaching unless he is indeed God, has...

I remember playing a game as a child in which we would bend one knee and grab our foot behind us and then try to race—limping, stumbling and falling over as we struggled across the grass toward a fini...

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

God, always the same, let me know myself, let me know Thee!

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

We had thought intellectually to examine him; we find he is spiritually examining us. The roles are reversed between us...A person may study Jesus with intellectual impartiality, he cannot do it with ...

I find it hard to be at rest and ambitious at the same time.

If I were making a list of benefits like the one Mike McKinley imagines, only this time using the devil’s actual logic, it might look more like this: Experience the excitement of new romance. Get th...

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that...

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest...

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Of two evils, choose neither.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am...

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair

Dear Everybody, We have a serious problem: All of us think we’re good people. But Jesus says we’re not. Sincerely, Brant P. Hansen