Room to Improve

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...

Man's Chief End

To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in ...

Danger of the Unexamined Self

Refusing to deal with our own potential for evil can make even our goodness dangerous.

Tell Children about Sin

There is a widespread refusal to let children know that the source of much that goes wrong in life is due to our very own natures--the propensity of all ...

What's Wrong with the World?

G. K. Chesterton, the famous philosopher/theologian, was once asked, "What do you think of civilization?"

Chesterton said, "I think it's ...

Good Intentions Fail

What upsets every scene, domestic or political, is not man's desire to be so bad. So far I have never met a man who wanted to be bad. The mystery ...

The Obscured Soul

The fact that Scripture speaks of our present unlikeness to God does not mean that Holy Writ maintains the likeness has been destroyed, but that something ...

Education Won't Change the Heart

D. L. Moody, the great American evangelist, once said, "If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you ...

Good and Evil in Every Heart

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy ...

How to Become a Dunce

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows of it.