We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
See God in the person next to you, this is service.
The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.