But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.