True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.
Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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