One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
It is not all bad this getting old ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
God has been very good to me for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it I always see some other virtue in that person.
Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
For it pleased God after he had made all things by the word of his power to create man after his own image.