The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse near.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Natural selection didn't design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take care of your genes.

Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.