I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
There’s a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, “Where are your wounds?” and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, “Was there nothing to fight for?” I couldn’t face that question.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Life has … taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Life has … taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.