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.
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
There is no doing in the world without being first.
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
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