The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.