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"Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life."
"If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."
"Forgiveness does not mean excusing."
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."
"Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work."
"The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent."
"The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it."
"Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing."
"A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers."
"God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms."
"It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly."
"Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves."
"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
"The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it."
"If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you."
"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
"A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere."
"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."
"Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?"
"To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity."
