Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

You can't out-perform your self-image.

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.