When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.