Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

God created man, but I could do better.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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.

Time stays, we go.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.