A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.