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

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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.

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.

Twasn’t me, ’twas the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ an’ He always did.

Evolution is the Law of Life. Number is the Law of the Universe. Unity is the Law of God.

God enters through the wound.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.