Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.