You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.