A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
My tactics were, by God’s aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
If you think you understand, it isn’t God.
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes – and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
God has given each of us our “marching order.” Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.