Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.