What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.

Faith in Christ is a one-time decision that leads to a lifetime of growth.

You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.