A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.