ThursdayNov 21, 2024
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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion; I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
I sought to hear the voice of God And climbed the topmost steeple, But God declared: 'Go down again I dwell among the people.'
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Faith ventures and hazards ... counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you r passage through life.
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