If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.

I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, which are not archives, which are not sold or prepared even.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.