If God dropped acid, would he see people?

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Being is the great explainer.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Words are loaded pistols.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.