The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
