We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
Proof. . . was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.
Madness breeds madness.
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent on your prosperity consciousness. As you can conceive of more, more will come into your life. There is an ocean of abundance available! There is plenty for everyone. You cannot rob another and they cannot rob you, and in no way can you drain the ocean dry. . . there is always more.
. . . orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.