If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
-J. M. Barrie
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
-Anthony J. D'angelo
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live.
Mankind is a great, immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by donating itself. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary.