Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls.

All's fair in love and war.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.