By-and-by never comes.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.

Arise and shine thy light.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.