Occupation: Author Birth: 1899 Death: April 10, 1981
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair..
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful..
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unre….
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers..
Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind..
He who fears is literally delivered to destruction..
What the world need is people who have come alive..
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature..
Ask yourself what makes you come alive..
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place..
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of exist….
There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number….
Follow the grain in your own wood..
Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed li….
Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact..
In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude..
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the ou….
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you..
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials..
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism..