When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
Know that all creatures have evolved from this twofold energy, and Brahmn is the origin as well as dissolution of the entire universe.
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers