The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.