“Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.”

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

A man lives by believing something.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

There are remedies for all things but death.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.

When I lost hope, hope came and found me, when I stopped believing in faith, faith believed in me.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.