The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
It is not enough to merely exist. It’s not enough to say, ‘I’m earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good parent.’ That’s all very well. But you must do something more.
Don’t stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
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.
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.