It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.