Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
-Jesus Christ
Grant me, O God, strength and courage to restrain the desires of my heart, that I may be free to possess you, Amen.
-Jesus Christ
God loveth those who are pure. No one is more loved than one of purity and immaculate cleanliness.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
-Henry David Thoreau
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-C. S. Lewis
No one can be a slave of two masters. You cannot serve both God and money.
-Jesus Christ
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.
God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’