“Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 173 of 1176
“We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.”
“I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.”
“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!”
“Give Him your mess and let it become your message.”
“Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.”
“To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.”
“Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.”
“It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.”
“We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.”
“Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.”
“The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.”
“God is at home. We are in the far country.”
“The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.”
“If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.”
“Food makes my mind sluggish.”
“God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.”
“The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.”
“God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.”
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”