Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
