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.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
