What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
