the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal,and things unseen are eternal.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal."

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.