If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex