Quotes from Anonymous Sources…
A Creed for Those Who Have Suffered
I asked God for strength that I might achieve…
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things…
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy…
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men…
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life…
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for…
But everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men most richly blessed.
May all I am and do return to praise the One!
Go within, or go without.
People stop being children when they start laughing at their ignorance.
Who would claim that they are living according to God who throughout whole days or even months and years do not sigh out to God and do not aspire to God? A clear sign of death is not breathing. If this breathing is prayer, not to pray is a sign of death. The spiritual life, by which we are children of God, is rooted in love… Who loves without wanting to see the person he loves? God asks nothing of the highest soul but attention.
On Reincarnation: Ego reincarnates with each thought but dies between them — here lies secret power of being still.
All the water in the world,
However hard it tried,
Could never, never sink a ship,
Unless it got inside.
And all the evil in the world,
The blackest kind of sin.
Can never hurt you one least bit —
Unless you let it in!
If ever two were one, then surly we.
As ever man is loved by God, then truly me.
Walk in My presence and you will be perfect.
It is an extraordinary fact and an extraordinary piece of evidence for the truth of religion, that a person’s long hours spent in silent communication with God, who never directly answers, is nevertheless manifestly a two-way communication. Such a person is gradually and permanently altered in the depths of his personality in ways which would be inconceivable if there was really nothing there at all.