For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.