Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.
Read in order to live.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
It is my nature to thin where others read.