Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king.

Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator.
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point--and does not break.

In this indeed I approach a matter more dark and awful than it is easy to discuss; and I apologise in advance if any of my phrases fall wrong or seem irreverent touching a matter which the greatest saints and thinkers have justly feared to approach.

But in that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt.

It is written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane.