The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Don't forget to love yourself.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.