"Perhaps religion is the best school of morality. It is like one of those drugs you gentlemen use in medicine which carries another in solution: it is of no efficacy in itself, but enables the other to be absorbed.

You take your morality because it is combined with religion; you lose the religion and the morality stays behind. A man is more likely ( Read more... )

Taken from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:

"...If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave ( Read more... )

To quote the advice of my father: "be kind to yourself."

I think that says a lot.

To quote St. Augustine of Hippo,

"God who created you without you, will not save you without you."

This sentence immediately made me conclude, "For God to help you, you need to want the help first.. and to work for it." Even with God's immense power and knowledge, we are given the freedom to choose how we want to live our lives, and to make the ( Read more... )