He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
Your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.
Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.