Quotes of: Useful Keyword

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

The Pursuit of God

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel

Paper Towns

The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

Paper Towns

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

The Painted Veil

As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

On Power

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

The Queen's Fool

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

The Quiet Girl

...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

The Transformation of Man

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

Twenty One Love Poems

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

The Violence of Love

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.

The Violence of Love

Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Voice of Reason

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

Whatever You Love

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

The Wee Free Men

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

We Learn Nothing

Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

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