I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.

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 am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

We define what we deserve, others also define what we deserve, apparently there is a huge difference and we spend our life constructing the same.

You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.