Gambling Is A Disease Of Barbarians Superficially

It Is Quite Natural And Inevitable That, If We Spend Sixteen Hours Daily Of Our Waking Lives In Thinking About The Affairs Of The World And Five Minutes In Thinking About God And Our Souls, This World Will Seem Two Hundred Times More Real To Us Than God.

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

"this Is Old, Therefore It Is Good"; The Other Says, "this Is New, Therefore It Is Better."

The Right Use Of Leisure Is No Doubt A Harder Problem Than The Right Use Of Our Working Hours. The Soul Is Dyed The Color Of Its Leisure Thoughts.

The Effect Of Boredom On A Large Scale In History Is Underestimated. It Is A Main Cause Of Revolutions, And Would Soon Bring To An End All The Static Utopias And The Farmyard Civilization Of The Fabians.