“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

The past is not what it was.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

We all live in the valley of fear looking up the sky giving us hope.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

Don’t let fear and negative energy steals your shine.