Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.
The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
The way forward is simple - just follow Christ!
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.
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