But in their turn, before the hour comes, let them listen also to what the Apostle says to them: ‘You were once darkness, and now youa re light in the Lord’ (Eph 5:8). Let them awaken according to the admonition of our Psalm. Already the mountain...
Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.
Water does not stick to the mountain, and vengeance does not stick to a big heart.
The goodness of the father reaches higher than a mountain; that of the mother goes deeper than the ocean.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the...
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.
When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.
All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills
I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
Prayer is my chief work; by it I carry on all else. Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of him that we are capable of in this life. It is the noblest exercise of the soul. It is the most exalted use of our best faculties. ...
Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.
On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...
What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.
But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.
Love always finds its way, but if you love someone just say...
