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.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
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.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
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.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
