The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others.
All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
I must forgive without noise or fuss.
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence – it is atonement.
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.