“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

I was with book, as a woman is with child

Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.

For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing.

You’re going to have to drive off the road and park behind thoses bushes,” i instructed vee. Vee leaned forward, peering into the darkness. “is that a ditch between me and the bushes ?” “it’s not very deep. Trust me, we’ll clear it.” “looks deep to me. This is a neon we’re talking about, not a hummer.