In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought, and he therefore cannot carry his own reflection to any logical conclusion.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!