Book: Daniel Stein, translator

Excuse my sincere desire to speak the truth as I see it, and in the madness of this intention.

There is always the feeling, you go across the fishery or call.

Each person must find his own way to God. This path is personal, otherwise we make not community volunteers in the Lord, and the army with the General at the head.

Well you atheists. The only measure of all - his own conscience.

... faith presupposes the existence of things that are not visible, and you make the effort and put it invisible and imperceptible to most important place, and refuse from the visible things in favor of the invisible.

I'm very afraid of spiritual life. This is the spiritual life, according to my observation, more often the person carries itself. As an exercise. As I have met small people with very big spiritual life, and almost always been that the spiritual life is to dig himself into a very shallow depth...

... it's always very difficult to decide what to say and what to keep to oneself. In my younger years, I believed that all men should know everything and I, as a pastor, is obliged to share all knowledge. Over the years realized that it is not. Man can know only what it can accommodate. (...) You know, afraid to disturb the stability in man. When a person is accustomed to thinking a certain way, then even a small deviation from the usual thinking may be painful. Not everyone is ready to accept new ideas, to clarify their knowledge and to Supplement. Generally to change.

... except the Bible and the New Testament there is another book that we also need to be able to read, is the book of life of the individual....

Our consciousness is so constituted that denies unsolvable problem. If the task is, there must be a solution. Only mathematicians know about the saving formula under the given conditions, the problem has no solution. But if there is no solution, it's good though to see the problem and avoid it in the ass from the front, sides, top, bottom. She's like that. It is impossible to solve. Such a lot of things - original sin, salvation, redemption, why God, if He exists, created evil, and if not, what is the meaning of life... All the questions for honest children. While small, ask questions, and when they grow up, find a suitable answer in tear-off calendar or in the catechism.
I'd like to understand, but no logic is not the answer. Christianity also gives. And Judaism does not. And Buddhism. Accept, gentlemen, there are many unanswered questions. There are things that we must learn to live and to get rid of them, but not to solve.

We are a doomed people. Those who remained behind always feel guilty about those who left.

I urge you to check it out, to challenge. Knowledge acquired without personal effort, no personal tension, the knowledge is dead. Just passed through your own head becomes your domain.

... only internally free person and he can laugh at himself and to give others to laugh at themselves.

Women in love is almost always the victim. Women suffer more from love. Maybe they are getting more.

What do call miracles? What, no one saw that never happened? What goes beyond our experience? That contradicts common sense? Which is unlikely, or happens so rarely that such an event no witnesses? (...)
From my experience, I can say: a miracle is known by the mind that creates art God. Does this mean that miracles do not happen with non-believers? It does not. Because the mind of an unbeliever is so arranged that it will be to explain the miracle by natural causes, theory of probability, or the exception to the rule. For the believer a miracle is the intervention of God in the natural course of events, and the mind of a believer is happy and filled with gratitude when a miracle occurs.