When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.