“He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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.

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.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

The heights of the earth don’t even begin to measure up to how much the creator of this universe loves you.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Young people aren’t the future; they are the now of God!

Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.