Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Faith Food Fun

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

I had a good friend in New York City.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt