“Absent in body, but present in spirit.”

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Bad company ruins good morals.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places . . . He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.

It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.

My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?

The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.