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Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.
If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.
And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.
If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
Become a Buddha? The mind can't do it. The body can't do it. Only what can't become a Buddha becomes a Buddha.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.