In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respo...
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
In the end, only the truth will survive.
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most sol...
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at...
We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are l...
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the de...