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"We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God."
"In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us."
"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry."
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God."
"I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body"
"God is only a great imaginative experience."
"I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work"
"The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done."
"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
"I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world."
"You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation."
"Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens."
"God is a geometrician."
"The will of God prevails."
"This nation under God"
"I am busily engaged in study of the Bible."
"Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
"God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion."
"Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything."
"God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
