For no change comes calmly over the world.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.