“Do this work until you feel the delight of it.”

The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you’re no longer willing to stay where you are.

Something about the vastness and beauty of nature makes the self feel small and insignificant, and anything that shrinks the self creates an opportunity for spiritual experience.

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.

When the world says Give Up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time.

The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow.

Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don’t ever count on it.

Work until your brain forgets and your body remembers.

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Artificial intelligence can never beat natural stupidity.

Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start.

The only thing harder than letting go is moving on.

Even in a crowd, you are alone inside your own head.

I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making some more.

I think I am therefore I might be.

A thankful heart is a happy heart.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.