If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
