What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
Love can make us fiends as well as angels.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet nestled in the provident silence of space. The ethical question is whether this is contributing to authentic human development and helping individuals and peoples to be true to their transcendent destiny.
Do not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.