Love Expands

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.

While each of us … has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar … but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.