You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been “had for a sucker” by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world’s population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year’s end.