“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 75 of 1176
“Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.”
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”
“A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.”
“The mind has to be empty to see clearly.”
“There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.”
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
“God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!”
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
“When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.”
“When you are free, all who come in contact with you will be blessed. Some may run away, but still they run away blessed.”
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.”
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.”
“Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.”
“Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.”
“Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.”
“Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.”