Love Expands

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach…Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.