“I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.”

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

My method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training—if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure.

I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

I would willingly go more primitive if it were necessary to preserve my freedom.

Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you’ll be free.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.