Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.