religion

"I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god."

"If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen."

"Call the world if you please "The vale of soul-making."

"I am now convinced that the Reformation of the church will come from the east. In the west there is no spiritual life. We have civilisation and we try to keep up culture, but we have no spiritual life…"

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

"The god of Mohammedism is not the God of the Bible by any stretch of the imagination. It is a little pantheistic god of nature. Because of this, the Islam religion accepts evolution very readily as a …"

"Now We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim th…"

"The Christian priest is not interested in God: he is interested in creating a business. He has to claim that Jesus is the only way, that all other ways are wrong. He is in search of customers."

"We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked, for “the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable” . The Church, which shares with Jews an importan…"

"By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!"

"In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error whe…"

"All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henr…"

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

"The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone."

"Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority."

"We have souls to save. The Church is not new. If we follow what the Church has always done, and what the saints have always done, we are assured of being on the safe path to Heaven. In all times, the …"

"You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be."

"This subject of Planning in the economic sphere is discussed in a separate paper. We will here deal only with the spiritual angle."

"Spiritual discourse always keeps the soul free from self-esteem, for it gives every part of the soul a sense of light, so that it no longer needs the praise of men."

"Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine charact…"