Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.