“For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

The attempt is to kill the false “I”, so that the real “I”, the Lord, will reign. “I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” say the Hebrew scriptures.

God made food; the devil the cooks.