. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Faith is the highest passion in a man.
May new sufferings torment your soul.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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