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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.
Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift .
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.
The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."
The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics eases and all things seem to be at peace.
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.