Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.