Mystical Paths (Starbridge, #5) QUOTES

1 " The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they’re not ready to accept; you can’t cure people by the simple imposition of your will. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit that heals, not the power of a would-be wonder-worker trying to play God. "

― Susan Howatch , Mystical Paths (Starbridge, #5)

3 " Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that’s authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive. "

― Susan Howatch , Mystical Paths (Starbridge, #5)

5 " Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be. "

― Susan Howatch , Mystical Paths (Starbridge, #5)

7 " Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.) "

― Susan Howatch , Mystical Paths (Starbridge, #5)