The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.