One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
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.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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.
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.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.