There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
God is not a diversion.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
