“Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.”

“In every saint there lurks an arrant knave, the marrow of all holyness being absolute hellishness. That is why our Saviours are of no awail, their remedies being too strong for common man, who is the puppet of his fleshly appetite and not a sinner.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

“Part of the Act of Faith is to affirm: There's no better way to bring a better Being into Being than to speak the Truth.”

“Even though no one else discovers the nonconformity or enforces the rules against it, the individual who has committed the impropriety may himself act as the enforcer. He may brand himself as deviant because of what he has done and punish himself in one way or another for his behavior.”

“How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.”

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”

“This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate.”

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”