237 quotes found
“Abandon hope.”
“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
“You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.”
“But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's g...”
“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”
“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
“It doesn't matter what the manifest problem was in our childhood family. In a home where a child is emotionally deprived for one reason or another that child will take some personal emotional confu...”
“The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.”
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Cre...”
“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”
“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over ag...”
“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. ”
“You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? Well, maybe the path to heaven is paved with bad ones.”
“A person knows when theyre in darkness, even when they cant see. -Nightblood”
“Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and ar...”
“A moment later Jonathans body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Dont let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? Im a seagull. I like to fly, m...”
“To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude o...”
“Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.”
“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they re...”
“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ”
