“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.”

“We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.”

“Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.”

“Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.”

“I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.”

“To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one.”