We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

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

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

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.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Theology is unnecessary.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.