I follow the rules until I go against them all.
If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!
But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend. . . . If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Pray, and let God worry.
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.