“May God prevent us from becoming “right-thinking men”-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.”

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.

Sometimes it can feel like we’ve lost time we can’t get back. But God knows how to restore you. He’s not just going to deliver you from the difficult season; He’s going to make up for the time you lost.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.