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.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
