Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman’s construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle – yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.