Francis Atterbury Quotes

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before we can discover it in our environment

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.

We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.