He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.
Interpretation
Having faith and inner peace brings contentment and joy to one's life regardless of the external circumstances.
This quote emphasizes the idea that a deep spiritual connection or faith can create a sense of fulfillment and joy that accompanies an individual wherever they go. It suggests that true happiness and a sense of paradise come from within, rather than from external achievements or situations.
In practice
During a speech on self-improvement, one might say this quote to emphasize the importance of inner joy.
O my God, teach me to be generous_x000D_ to serve you as you deserve to be served_x000D_ to give without counting the cost_x000D_ to fight without fear of being wounded_x000D_ to work without seeking rest_x000D_ and to spend myself without expecting any reward_x000D_ but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will._x000D_ Amen
Discouragement is not from God.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
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