Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take *care* of each other rather than look for ways to take *advantage* of each other.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated