For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
