The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.