“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.”

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

I am convinced that God is love.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.

You will always know you’re on the right path, when your desire to give up is overshadowed by your patience to persevere.

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

If your best efforts bring less than desirable results because your mental health is suffering, I hope you know you are still worthy and doing all that you can. You deserve to applaud yourself.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.