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What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.
There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.
I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.
Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.
Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.
To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.
If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.