Occupation: Scientist Birth: January 29, 1688 Death: March 29, 1772
God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with h….
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end..
Conscience is God's presence in humans..
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own..
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world..
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense..
If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything..
We are, because God is..
Love comes into being through useful service to others..
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness..
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these thi….
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own..
Love in its essence is spiritual fire..
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them..
For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it….
Our love is our life itself. What our love is like determines how we live and therefore everything about what we are as human beings..
Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding..
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be..
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves….
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritua….
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning..