To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
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.
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.
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?
In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.
[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.