We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.