What may not be universally applicable may be individually applicable. And what may apply to me may not apply to you. Oh, says the philosopher, then there are no eternal verities. You miss the point! There are both! But it takes a discerning and careful mind to determine which is which.


Thoughtless people answer one absurdity with another one.


The atheist would have only glory. No opposition, no struggle, no pain, only goodness. Oh, so you would have Him deny you the right to disbelieve and deny others the right to believe? So what would we have then? A world of coercion, rebellion and chaos!


Aren’t we reading something into reality when we interpret it from the lowest we know rather than from the highest we know? Isn’t mind and will, love and compassion, meaning and purpose, and other intangible attributes of man just as much a part of reality as atoms and molecules?


Man has a penchant for reducing complexity to simplicity, the unexplainable to what he thinks is explained, the transcendent to the ordinary, and thus gets himself further and further from the truth.


If one declares that the effect of religion in his life has been negligible perhaps it is really because he has been negligible.


If one complains that religion is ineffective perhaps it is because it hasn’t been tried. Or tried long enough! Or sincerely enough!


If one wants to have a rich life he has to spend some of himself.


Just as a strong body may be a cover-up for a weak mind, so a weak body may be a cover-up for a strong mind.


The next time you are tempted to deny the efficacy of religion, ask yourself this question: If I sincerely lived the noblest teachings of religion would I be mentally healthy or unhealthy?


Not everyone who declares he is a prophet; not everyone who writes a book; not everyone who creates a product or a program; not everyone who vows he knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; not everyone who has a high I.Q and a string of degrees from prestigious universities, is necessarily honest. Generally his greed for money or fame eclipses the truth.


Politicians are very adept at convincing people that their lies are the truth, and the people who elect them to office are often ignorant, uninformed or ill-informed people who are easily duped into believing