Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. |
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex |
Fortunate are those who have learned the best way to get is first to give through useful service |
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one |
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one |
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. |
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. |
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. |
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world |
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain |
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind |
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart |
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. |
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. |
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. |