Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Once you label me you negate me.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Without risk faith is an impossibility.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want t...
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so s...
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.