The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought – that is a real force.
Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted...
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
It doesn’t matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
It’s not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.