Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of 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.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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.
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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
