"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."
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"You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings."
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"Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes."
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"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
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"If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out."
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"...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
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"It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation."
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"We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence"
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"In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution."
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"Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful."
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"Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods."
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"The dice of God are always loaded."
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"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."
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"Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms."
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"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
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"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
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"Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all."
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