Evil is precisely that with which no spirit can rest content; and yet it is the condition, not the accidental but the essential condition, of what is in and for itself the best thing in life, namely moral victory.
His definition of Sin helps us to understand his politics: Sin is the self-assertion either of a part of a man's nature against the whole, or of a single member of the human family against the welfare of that family and the will of its Father.
But if it is self-will, he asks, how is it to be overcome?
Not by any kind of force; for force cannot bend the will.

Not by any kind of external transaction; that may remit the penalty, but will not of itself change the will.

It must be by the revelation of a love so intense that no heart which beats can remain indifferent to it.
All this seems to me admirably said.

It does at least show that there are clear, logical, and practical reasons for the religious hypothesis.
The mind of man, seeking to penetrate the physical mysteries of the universe, encounters Mind.

Mind meets Mind.