For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.