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"Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought."
"What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus."
"The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism."
"My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late."
"We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called."
"Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing"
"We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill."
"The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live."
"The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven."
"That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs."
"...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task."
"The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary."
"I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live."
"We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good."
"We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace."
"Only through love can we obtain communion with God."
"We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone."
"There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are."
"Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life."
"Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live."