I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. . . Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,. . . a conversation with God.
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.
Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
