jayjayp

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. - Author object (312)

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. - Author object (312)

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites. - Author object (312)

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending. - Author object (312)

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Author object (312)

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. - Author object (312)

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. - Author object (348)

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. - Author object (348)

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. - Author object (348)

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. - Author object (348)

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - Author object (348)

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. - Author object (348)

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. - Author object (348)

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. - Author object (348)

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - Author object (348)

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... - Author object (348)

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. - Author object (348)

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. - Author object (348)

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - Author object (348)

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. - Author object (348)