Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics

“A man's rights are not merely decorations or ends in themselves. They are opportunities, instruments, trusts. And when any man has them, it means that he is placed on a vantage-ground from which, secure of oppression or interference, he may begin to do his duty.[””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“Life is not merely a gift, it is a task, an achievement. We are not simply passive recipients of the Good, but free and determinative agents who react upon what is given, taking it up into our life and working it into the texture of our character.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“Christ would awaken in every man the consciousness of the priceless worth of his soul, and would have him realise in his own person God's idea of manhood.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“The tendency of modern political thought is to increase the control of government, and to regard all departments of activity as branches of the state, to be held and worked for the general good of the community. Thus there is a danger that the individual may gradually lose all initiative, and life be impoverished under a coercive mechanical system.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“Whatever be man's past history and evolution, he has from the beginning been made in God's image, and bears the divine impress in all the lineaments of body and soul. His degradation cannot wholly obliterate his inherent nobility, and indeed his actual corruption bears witness to his possible holiness.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“The essence of sin is selfishness. It is the deliberate choice of self in preference to God”

— Archibald B. D. Alexander

“The theologian must not be content to discuss merely speculative problems about God and man. He must seek above {2} all things to bring the truths of revelation to bear upon human practice. All knowledge has its practical implicate.””

— Archibald B. D. Alexander