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.

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.

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.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

I CAN and I WILL.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness