One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
Interpretation
The honest search for truth is ultimately beneficial and harmless.
This quote emphasizes the importance of seeking the truth in a sincere manner. It suggests that, despite any potential challenges or opposition one might face in this pursuit, being truthful and earnest in the quest for knowledge and understanding will never lead to harmful outcomes in the long term.
In practice
During a motivational speech about integrity and personal values.
Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).
Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we speak her truly magic word fiat, "let it be." It is the creative word, the word God used to create the universe.
Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
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