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.
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.
The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good.
You are my hope and my refuge in the day of my trouble.
-Jesus Christ
He who trusts in God and makes an honest living to share with others and injures no one, nor harbours ill will against another need perform no other rituals.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
-Jim Elliot
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
-William Shakespeare
