You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

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.

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Everybody has demons, some more than others

there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.