As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.