The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Fear is real, but so is love.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The object of the superior man is truth.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Nature does nothing in vain.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The lie is a condition of life.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.