“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Travel“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Travel“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Good“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
Experience“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Love“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
Great“O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.”
Funny“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”
Great“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Nature“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Men“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
God“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
Forgiveness“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“The purpose of all wars, is peace.”
Peace“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art“He that is jealous is not in love.”
Jealousy“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Government“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Faith