A man who first tried to guess ‘what the public wants,’ and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it’s the complete anti-God state of mind.
Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
Autumn is really the best of the seasons.
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory.
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now.
Why should your heart not dance?
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one’s own meaning.
Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.
I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we’re so anxious not to see.
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.