You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
Prayer is the best resort and God will guide you to feel beautiful moments even if you're weak or strong, bury your soul into the arms of the love of God.
I think that Gnosticism is about discovering the way that God has turned into you, and then realizing that if you can describe how it is that God turned into you, you can reverse the process.
A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.
God gave the giraffe a long neck so that He would not have to bend the palm tree.
Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are.
The best thing God did was to make one day follow another.
If your wife tells you to throw yourself off a cliff, pray to God that it is a low one.
In a small house God has His corner, in a big house He has to stand in the hall.
In a small house God has his corner, in a large house He has to stand in the hall.
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.
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