Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. – Karl Barth
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. – Giordano Bruno
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts. – Bertrand Russell
We need to accept that we wont always make the right decisions, that well screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, its part of success. – Arianna Huffington
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. – Edna St. Vincent Millay