“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 364.
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Source: Introduction to Church Dogmatics (1957), p. 11

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 103.

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Conclusion : The Moral of this Examination
A Perplexed Philosopher (1892)
Context: I care nothing for creeds. I am not concerned with any one's religious belief. But I would have men think for themselves. If we do not, we can only abandon one superstition to take up another, and it may be a worse one. It is as bad for a man to think that he can know nothing as to think he knows all. There are things which it is given to all possessing reason to know, if they will but use that reason. And some things it may be there are, that — as was said by one whom the learning of the time sneered at, and the high priests persecuted, and polite society, speaking through the voice of those who knew not what they did, crucified — are hidden from the wise and prudent and revealed unto babes.