Theodore

“It used to be a freethinker was a man who had been brought up with notions of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at freethinking by himself, through his own toil and struggle. But now a new type of self-made freethinkers has appeared, who grow up and never even hear that there were laws of morality, religion, that there were authorities, but who grow up right into notions of the negation of everything - that is, as wild men.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.”
― Padre Pio

“One need not fear the devil, but rather the perverse tendencies in oneself!”
― Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

“Once you achieve the certainty that happiness will not be found by getting more sensory pleasures or thinking more interesting thoughts, your commitment to inner exploration will deepen,”
― Shaila Catherine, The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States