Faith, Spirituality and Religion

Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,

And lips say, ‘God be pitiful,’

What was he doing, the great god Pan,

Earth’s crammed with heaven,

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour.

In me there is darkness, but with you there is light.

Jesus is there only for others … ‘the man for others’, and therefore the crucified.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

The Vision of Christ that thou dost see

If the Sun and Moon should doubt,

Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.

If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm … an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It’s a reasonable percentage.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Everything is fitting for me, my universe, which fits thy purpose. Nothing in its good time is too early or too late for me; everything is fruit for me which thy seasons, Nature, bear; from thee, in thee, to thee, are all things.

There is no salvation outside the church.

You command continence; give what you command, and command what you will.

Tolle lege, tolle lege.

Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty both so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee.

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.