Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe science. I think it is possible to invert that idea, and to say that the wonders of real consciousness far surpass what conventional science admits can exist.

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God: thou hast as directly opposed, and striven against, and resisted Him, as ever man did oppose, and resist, and strive with another man, and this thou hast done in the whole course of thy life: certainly there is more in this to humble a man than anything that can be spoken to shew him the evil of sin.

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.