If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.

Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may, ' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.