We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

this is a book about something

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.