We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please.

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.