Connie Willis Quote

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is lik...

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing peo...

Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; vir...

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religiou...

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings...

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.