We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.
To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be around that many people that were at the same point in their lives, who played guitar or whatever instrument - it was just perfect. It was a great environment.