To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

We read to know we are not alone.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.