How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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'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.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
