I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.