"However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God."
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"...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue."
"My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?"
"Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it.""
"He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him."
"Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all."
"Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines."
"As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness."
"In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life."
"I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me."
"By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there."
"Forgiveness works the miracle of change."
"In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God."
"The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life."
"If you comprehend, it is not God."
"Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover."
"God finds himself by creating."
"It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment."
"Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!"
"Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved."