God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.