It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.