Is not Life miserable enough, comes not Death soon enough, without resort to the hideous enginery of War?
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.