Sin can be pleasurable, but it never brings happiness.

To reduce the demands of God’s law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one’s own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.

Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.

Sanctification is a process. It is a gradual process. Run for your life from those who promise you instant sanctification.

Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.

Two vitally important truths about the Christian life: we are pilgrims, and we make progress.

If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

We live in the world when we love it.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

When you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Age considers; youth ventures.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.