Author	Latest Quotations In Descending Order Of Submission
Didzis	All of the world's problems we bitch about will decrease when we stop contributing to them. If we scream for change, we must be willing to make that change. As individuals take up the responsibility to transform themselves, society gradually changes. This is the panacea for our so-called civilization.
John Welwood	The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
Unknown Author	Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . .  on your powers, instead of your problems.
Sir John Lubbock	What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Aristotle	For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Don Marquis	Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Akin A. Awolaja	Where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today.
Author	Previous Quotations In Alphabetical Order By Author
Platoon the movie	Hell is the impossibility of reason.
Abraham Lincoln	If  I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Agatha Christie	I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing
Agnes Repplier	It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Albert Einstein	Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein	I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein	The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert J. LaChance	My job as believer is to accept revealed truth as truth, and then to struggle to understand why it is truth.
Albert Schweitzer	Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Aldous Huxley	An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley	The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Alfred A. Montapert	Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alice Batchelder	Links of bondage welded together in the early days of free and eager giving too often become galling later.
Alice Dreger	The organization system arranges the world in such a way as to reinforce that system maker's idea of the world - how what seems important gains in importance, how what seems unimportant fades from view.
Alice von Hildebrand	It is not enough for us to believe; we must know how to live our beliefs.
Alisdair MacIntyre	There is no logical transition which will take one from unbelief to belief.  The transition is not in objective considerations at all, but in the person who comes to believe.  There are no logical  principles which will make the transition.
Allyson Jones	If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
An Episcopal bishop	The Gospel was proclaimed in Judea and became a faith community; it sailed to Athens and became a philosophy; it crossed the Alps to Rome and became an institution; it crossed Europe to England and became a culture; it crossed the Atlantic and became a commercial enterprise.
Anatole France	One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anne Baber	The classic definition of a bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Anne Moir	Work for which we are paid is not necessarily more honorable or significant than work for which we are not paid.  Prostitutes are paid, mothers aren't.
Anonymous	Authentic experience of the Divine makes one humble; he who is not humble has not had authentic   experience of the Divine.
Anonymous	God does not speak in words, but through them.
Anonymous	Going backwards is progress when you have taken a wrong turn.  How long it takes to reach the goal is not as important as reaching it.
Anonymous	In order to obtain authentic sources of the profound life, one must seek profound thought--which is meditation; one must seek profound feeling--which is contemplation; and one must seek the primal will beyond desires and longings--which is asceticism.  It is thus that conscious participation in authentic spiritual life is gained, and it is thus that the sources of this life are opened.
Anonymous	Just as people from different physical starting points may reach the same destination from different directions, people from different spiritual starting points may attain the same state by different paths.  The end cannot be judged by the means; rather, the means must be judged by the end.
Anonymous	May our communities become those of people who learn from everyone instead of teaching everyone!
Anonymous	Mediocrity is the seedbed of genius.
Anonymous	Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Anonymous	Mysticism is the awakening of the soul to the reality of the presence of God.
Anonymous	No one is more hopelessly lost than a fool who thinks he's intelligent.
Anonymous	One knows truly when one understands what one knows, when one feels what he has understood, and when one has put into practice what one has understood and felt.
Anonymous	Sometimes I think ISKCON should be renamed ISMIST - International Society for Misapplication of Spiritual Teachings.
Anonymous	Spiritual asphyxia menaces he who does not practice some form of prayer; he who practices it receives vivifying benediction in some form.
Anonymous	The entire body of scientific theory is nothing but a structure of intellectual as-ifs, attempting to describe human experience.
Anonymous	The initiate is one who knows how to attain knowledge, i.e. who knows how to ask, seek and put into practice the appropriate means in order to succeed.
Anonymous	The spiritual world does not in any way suffer experimenters.  One seeks, one asks, one knocks at its door.  But one does not open it by force.  One waits for it to be opened.
Anonymous	The true mission is not what the human being proposes to do on the earth according to his tastes, his interests and even his ideals, but rather what God wants him to do.  Arbitrary "missions," although due to the best  intentions in the world, have only contributed confusion to human history.  It is to these inopportune "missions" that we owe many crises upsetting the life of mankind's living traditions--interrupting, in the guise of passing comets, the peaceful and constructive flow of true progress.
Anonymous	Those who know the truth are duty-bound to tell others.  Those who do not know the truth are duty-bound to seek it.  This is the sum and substance of human life.
Anthony Trollope	Till we can become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower."
Anton Boisen  E	When the church, the institution which seeks to represent that which is permanent and universal in human society, tends constantly to introduce short cuts and protective devices in order to bolster up the moral self-respect of its faulty members.  It becomes over-particular about creedal conformity and ritualistic niceties and in other ways it tends to substitute minor for major virtues and loyalties.
Anton Boisen	Mental disorder is, I hold, the price humanity has to pay for having the power of choice and the capacity for growth, and in some of its forms it is a manifestation of healing power analogous to fever or inflammation in the body...I believe that many forms of insanity are religious rather than medical problems and that they  cannot be successfully treated until they are so recognized.
Anton Boisen	Myths existed long before science and express life as it is seen and experienced more accurately than objective scientific assessment.
Aristotle	For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle	Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Arthur Frank	One of our most difficult duties as human beings is to listen to the voices of those who suffer... These voices bespeak conditions of embodiment that most of us would rather forget our vulnerability to.  Listening is hard, but it is also a fundamental moral act; to realize the best potential in post-modern times requires an ethics of listening.
Arthur Koestler	The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.  We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
Arthur Schopenhauer	Who expects that in this world the devils move along with horns and the fools with bells, will be  constantly their victim or they will make a game of him.
Augustine	...how are they to call upon the Lord until they have learned to believe in him?  And how are they to believe in  him without a preacher to listen to?
Augustine	God thirsts to be thirsted after.
Augustine	What is now called the Christian religion existed even among the ancients and was not lacking from the beginning of the human race until 'Christ came in the flesh.'  From that time, true religion, which already existed, began to be called Christian [by the followers of Christ].
	Augustine...what a person does against his will is not to his own credit, even if what he does is good in itself.
Author Unknown	...faith is man's relation to transcendent reality, and the mundane objects through which faith is expressed, whatever they be, including...ritual and ceremony, the sacraments, scripture, but also including propositions, belief and other intellectual constructs, have to do with faith insofar, and only insofar, as they serve as activating symbols or effective channels of the reality.
Author Unknown	...the question is not whether man returns to religion and believes in God but whether he lives love and thinks truth.  If he does so the symbol systems he uses are of secondary importance.  If he does not they are of no importance.
Author Unknown	...to be human...is to live a life within the material realm but one on which the realm of spirit impinges.
Author Unknown	A real ideal for man must be applicable to the world of man's experience.  An ideal which is not so applicable is no ideal for man, even though it might entrance angels and redeem Absolutes.
Author Unknown	Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Author Unknown	Don't pray for greater opportunities; pray for the ability to fully utilize the opportunities you have.
Author Unknown	Each object of knowledge demands a method of knowledge which is proper to it.
Author Unknown	Everything other than the true God is transformed by worship into a demon.
Author Unknown	Freedom is not the opposite of determinism, but of compulsion, of having to act.
Author Unknown	Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
Author Unknown	God governs the world and knows his own times and seasons: it is our duty to endeavor not to be unserviceable in this our day and patiently leave the event to Providence.
Author Unknown	Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Author Unknown	In the minds we call creative as against mere data processors, a great work takes its own time for incubation.
Author Unknown	It is a disgrace to die rich.
Author Unknown	It is impossible for me to recognize greatness which is not united with candor and sincerity towards one's self.  The moment I make a discovery of this sort, a man's achievements count for absolutely nothing with me.
Author Unknown	Light and heat are both found in a religious mind duly disposed.  Light in due order goes first.  It is dangerous to begin with heat, that is with the affections...our affections should grow from inquiry and deliberation...
Author Unknown	One will never be satisfied with the pleasures of the body and mind separated from Krishna, and even things that apparently satisfy for a time will quickly fade, being temporary by nature.  Why delight in what  is temporary and superficial? Such delight is the true nature of sin.
Author Unknown	Our ideals are like the North Star guiding the mariner.  He does not hope ever to reach it, but it shows him the way to go.
Author Unknown	Scripture is not an encyclopedia that tells us everything we need to know about every subject....Our only guarantees are that its teachings are truthful, foundational and sufficient for salvation.  Therefore, although all propositions must be tested by Scripture, they need not all be found in Scripture.
Author Unknown	Since the things of the world cannot enter the soul, they are not in themselves an St. John of the Cross encumbrance or harm to it; rather, it is the will and appetite dwelling within that cause the damage when set on these things.
Author Unknown	The law of attraction states that you will experience whatever you are thinking about long enough and deeply enough.
B. N. K. Sharma	Freedom of opinion and independence of thought are the birthright of every philosopher.
B. N. K. Sharma	It would be sheer dogmatism to say that we should not raise logical objections in a case that transcends all reason.  In that case, all philosophy should have to be given up as a wild goose chase.  The plea of 'transcending logic' or even 'transcendental logic' can be urged with propriety only in cases where the authorities are unanimous...Where conflicting authorities claim to interpret the shruti each to suit his own metaphysics, the employment of reason becomes more important than the bare text itself
B .R  Sridhara Maharaja	Power dressed in affection and love, couched in humility--that is Vrindavana
Baltasar Gracian	A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied
Barbara Sher	Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome.  Invented ones are like a maze.
Benjamin Disraeli	One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli	The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
	Benjamin Disraeli  Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Bernard Haring	...over the past few centuries a static form of theological expression has lost touch with man, who, by his very nature, is dynamic.
Bernard Haring	A certain principle...may be true and yet propounded with such outworn or feeble arguments as to make those who teach it incredible--and not only in this one matter but with respect to the whole message of faith.
Bernard Haring	A humanity which stops short with the formulations of a certain era is worthy to be buried in a museum.
Bernard Haring	All thought bears the stamp of the thinker's world and his own personality.
Bernard Haring	Any attempt to impose some no infallible doctrine on people against their better convictions will inevitably lead to a breakdown of sincerity, a resort to hypocrisy, or to a lessening of personal efforts toward achieving a deeper understanding.
Bernard Haring	Any attempt to stifle the nature of a person--that is, those natural qualities which are God's gifts--inevitably leads to a vehement concern for self-fulfillment.  This can mean a firm decision not to allow anyone to bury our talents in the earth; but it can--as a reaction--degenerate into a frustrating self-consciousness and self-concern.  When, on the other hand, those in authority show respect for the particular talents and capabilities of individuals, and thus bring home all the wealth of God's gifts for the common good, it becomes easier for everyone to offer his service and to use to the utmost his opportunities for the good of all.
Bernard Haring	The person discovers his real self by finding the One who calls him and by responding to the call in full recognition of his uniqueness as a person with these particular gifts and in his particular situation.
Bernard Haring	We do not live in the Middle Ages, nor should we wish to return to them.  Today is the day God has prepared for our generation and we must cope with our task with the tools and the thinking of today.
Bertrand Russell	Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell	I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.
Bhakti Ananda Goswami	...one must try to grasp and preserve and to perpetuate the best of everything that we as humans have inherited. This means fearlessly facing our inheritance and identifying those pathological  things that should no longer be perpetuated.
Bhakti Ananda Goswami	Persons of integrity can be mal-educated or misled and become strong proponents of untruths.  Thus it is important not to lump-in-together all of the proponents of a particular perspective, as if  they are all of one mind and motivation. Sometimes people are con-artists, but others of great  sincerity and integrity can be misled.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	If you are not engaged in the service of Hari, you will be either a jnani follower of absolute monism, or a karmi performer of scriptural rites for securing pleasures in this life or the next, or an unabashed servant of worldly desires without restraint.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The ordinary meaning of the word "Krishna" is an entity which is different from Krishna.  It is something that is enveloped by the deluding energy of Krishna.  It is an object which is comprehensible to the other gross senses besides the ear.  It is a product of our sensuous perception.  We shall not defile the word "Krishna" by accepting this meaning.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The society which does not place itself under the guidance of those who possess the knowledge of Brahman will sink down to the uttermost depths of degeneration.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati	The only duty of the servant of Godhead is to try to do that by which one's skill in performing the service of Godhead is continuously developed.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	...jnana, which is a means for achieving the Absolute Truth, is also recommended as abhidheya, or a means for achieving the ultimate goal.  If one cultivates knowledge of the Supreme Lord, then there is a good possibility of awakening pure love, which is the living entities' prayojana
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	...we have full liberty to reject the wrong idea, which is not sanctioned by the peace of conscience.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	All subjects of this material world are under the jurisdiction of argument, but the soul cannot be seen by any method other than self-realization.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	Although a living entity is never able to ascertain the truth with his small intelligence, a blackish personality with a form of pure consciousness has appeared in my heart and engaged me in the work of ascertaining the truth.  For this reason I have boldly taken up this work.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	One has no need of serving a Vaishnava who may have undergone formal initiation but who has never once chanted the Holy Name offenceless.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	The primary engagement of Vaishnavas is to deliver their fallen brothers from the well of material existence.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	When favorable karma and jnana are dovetailed with bhakti, they are called bhakti-yoga.  Those who cannot understand this synthesis are improperly engaged either in fruitive activities, speculative knowledge, or demigod worship.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura	Party spirit--that great enemy of truth--will always baffle the attempt of the inquirer who tries to gather truth from the religious works of his nation and will make him believe that the Absolute Truth is nowhere except in his old religious book.
Bible Corinthians 13	Love keeps no score of wrongs, does not gloat over other men's sins but delights in the truth.
Bible, Proverbs 11:17	Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
Bible Thess. 5, 5-8	For all of you are children of the light and children of the day.  We are not of the night or of darkness.  Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.  Those who sleep go to sleep at  night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.  But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on  the breast plate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
Bible Thess. 21	Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Blaise Pascal	I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you.  Apart from that, I know not  what is good or bad in anything.
Booker T. Washington	Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed
Börne	The light which is spread by so-called official opinions, is like a will o' the wisp which leads us into the mire.
Brian Tracy	Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brooke Foss Westcott	Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men  Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis  shows what we have become.
Brother Aelred Niespolo	We must help each other find the proper form of service we are called to; and help each other to be faithful to what we are called to be.
Bruce R. Reichenbach	Although as critical thinkers we reflect on others' ideas, we properly employ critical thinking not so much to challenge or correct others as to benefit ourselves: to become self-reflective.
Bruce R. Reichenbach	To have our every wish and desire satisfied does little but stoke the flames of desire.
Buddha	Let the wise man guard his thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, very artful, and rushing wherever they list: thoughts well guarded bring happiness.
Buddha	Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.
Buddha	You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
C. S. Lewis	God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.
C. S. Lewis	If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis	It is dangerous to press upon a man the duty of getting beyond earthly love when his real difficulty lies in getting        so far.
C. S. Lewis	Nothing is falser than the idea that mockery is necessarily hostile.
C. S. Lewis  T	he spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.
C. S. Lewis	To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God.
C. S. Lewis	We must be thankful to all the people who have helped us, we must honor them and love them.  But never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.
C. S. Lewis	What we learn from evidence depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to the evidence.
C. S. Lewis	When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just around the corner
C.S. Lewis	All natural affections...can become rivals to spiritual love: but they can also be preparatory imitations of it, training so to speak of the spiritual muscles which Grace may later put to a higher service; as women nurse dolls in childhood and later nurse children.
C.S. Lewis	The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.
C.S. Lewis	To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue.
Carl Jung	I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery, be it cooling water for the thirsty or the sandy wastes of unfruitful error.  The one helps, the other warns.  Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of his discoveries, but future generations
Carl Jung	If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to         understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
Carl Jung	One sees what one can best see from oneself.
Carl Jung	The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Carl Jung  T	he building up of prestige is always a product of collective compromise: not only must there be one who wants  prestige, there must also be a public seeking somebody on whom to confer prestige.
Carl Jung	The danger of all systems is that they tend to mistake the words which serve as pointers for the realities to which they point.
Carl Jung	The more one-sidedly, rigidly, and absolutely...one position is held, the more aggressive, hostile, and incompatible will the other become, so that at first sight there would seem to be little prospect of reconciling the two.  But once the conscious mind admits at least the relative validity of all human opinion, then the opposition loses something of its irreconcilable character.
Carl Jung	True education can only start from naked reality, not from a delusive ideal.
Carl Schurz	Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Chaitanya Charitamrita 1.2.117	Do not, out of laziness, neglect to meditate on the conclusions of the scriptures.  From knowledge of the siddhanta, the mind will become fixed on Krishna.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu	The outward union of body with body is not real union.  This is an illusion.  The real union is the union of soul with soul in the service of the Lord.
Charles Mackay	Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Cherie Carter-Scott	Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
Chinese Proverb	Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb	Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
Chinese Proverb	If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.
Chuan C. Chang	...an idea is not acceptable unless the student understands why it works
Cicero	I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised men to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Cicero	If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Claude Bernard	Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted to make discoveries.
Confucius	If a state  is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are the subjects of shame.
Confucius	Learning without reflecting is just a waste of time, contemplating without learning is no good.
Confucius	The person who learns but does not think is lost.  The person who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius	When people say this is bad, examine it; when they say this is good, examine it.
Confucius	Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Constantin Stanislavski	Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Daniel Goleman	There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
Dante	...earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarters changes name.
Dante	...where Reason spurs the probing of the soul...
Dante	...who sees the need but waits for the request, already is half-guilty of denial....
Dante	...you have the innate faculty of reason, which should defend the threshold of consent.  This is the principle on which is based the judgment of your merit - according as it winnows out the good love from the bad.
Dante	I led you here with skill and intellect; from here on, let your pleasure be your guide: the narrow ways, the steep are far below.
Dante	I shall explain the logical necessity of what perplexes you, and thus remove what has obscured your mind.
Dante	O sun that shines to clear a misty vision, such joy is mine when you resolve my doubts that doubting pleases me  no less than knowing!
David M. Sherman	Asceticism is the exercise we get defending the borders of our soul and keeping our spiritual house in order as a clean and pleasant dwelling place of our God Who Is Love.
Deepak Chopra	If, through the act of giving, you feel that you have lost something, then the gift is not truly given.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	...in spite of the pain due to our awareness of being still so far removed from God, we should be filled with joy because we have come to know ourselves better and gotten rid of our illusions about our character.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Anxious as we may be at once to communicate the Truth we have unmeritedly received and to light up other souls..., we must always bear in mind that we ourselves cannot fruitfully sow before the divine seed has unfolded to a certain degree in our own souls--which means...a period of maturing.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	By the degree of a man's inner readiness to change, his religious level may be decisively judged.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand	For we have acquired that holy sobriety which renders us unable to bear any but sound doctrine, unlike those who "will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables" 2 Tim. 4:3-4
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Humility is the opposite, not only of all malicious pride but of all forms of self-centered mediocrity, such as emphasis on petty pleasures or honors, any kind of slavery to conventions, any attachment of importance to unimportant concerns, any cowardice, any bourgeois complacency.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	It is implied in...true peace that we shall never be wholly submerged by the vortex of successive tensions which we have to endure.  We shall never so forget the true and perennial order of things as to overestimate the task of the moment merely because we are caught in the tension of our effort of realize it.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Not peace as such, but God, is the absolute good.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Not unless we again and again pause to take breath, abandoning ourselves to contemplation, can we escape the danger of losing ourselves in the peripheral and of allowing the deeper meaning of our life to be swamped.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	Our possession of the highest human virtue which is humility constitutes the necessary foundation for our progress towards sharing the specifically divine virtue of mercy.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	The more our life is permeated by God, the simpler it becomes.  This simplicity is defined by the inward unity which our life assumes because we no longer seek for any but one end: God.  No longer do we judge things from different points of view, from that of our temporal interests, for example, or of the interests of others, or of our consideration for public opinion, and in addition to these, from that of our consideration for God's will, as though all these points of view were on a level with each other.  One supreme point of view governs our entire life and in subordination to that point of view all else is judged and settled.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	The very concept of an impersonal absolute contains a self-contradiction, for any personal being is in essence superior to everything impersonal.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	True self-knowledge, freedom from all illusions, and a clear recognition of our metaphysical situation are indispensable conditions of our transformation.
Dietrich Von Hildebrand	We cannot be sheltered as finite persons, except in an infinite Person, who alone can fully comprehend us and lift us from the state of dereliction that is inherent in our finiteness.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	We only take true account of a genuine good if we see it in the place where it properly stands in the thought of God.  Nor do we fully honor or love a created good of genuine value unless we honor and love God more than that good.
Donald E. Miller	Human beings inevitably bring to their search for truth a background of experiences that predispose them toward particular expressions of religion; furthermore, the way in which they speak of ultimate things reflects the culture in which they live, its language, the limitations of the world view in which they have been acculturated, and so on.  Human beings are limited in their powers of conceptualization.  They see the world through the filter of their past experiences.
Donald E. Miller	I am suggesting that what we call reality within the religious sphere is a product of the dialectic between  the individual with hand-held lamp and the truth that lies beyond the full reach of the beam's illumination. Hence, our attempts to describe this reality are always partial and appropriately identified as social constructions.
Donald E. Miller	It is the desire for a framework of values and meaning which defines, in my view, the essential humanity of man and distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Donald E. Miller	Self-development as an end in itself is always bound to fail; character is defined and structured in service to others.
Donna Roberts	A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers	Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
E. A. Bennet	True devotion consists neither in fruitless and passing emotion, nor in a certain vain credulity. Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of the Second Vatican Council. While religion itself is no escape from reality it is nevertheless true that there are multitudes of religious people who are not ready to pay the price of complete commitment and thoroughgoing honesty which true religion demands.  Such people resort to counterfeit coinage and subterfuges of all sorts.
E. M. Forster	It matters so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
E. M. Forster	Life never gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
e.e. Cummings	To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
e.e. Cummings	To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Earl Nightingale	We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Edward B. Butler	One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward P. J. Corbett	Many people are alienated rather than persuaded by intemperate language.  Clever writers can sometimes be too clever for their own good.  It does not take a sledge-hammer to drive a nail.
Edward P.J. Corbett	A genuine truth might well be reduced to absurdity by a witty rhetorician, but it would remain the truth despite its having been discredited in the minds of the audience.
Edward S. Finkelstein	Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up.
Elbert Hubbard	The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.
Epictetus	I must die; well, but must I die groaning too?  I will speak what appears to be right, and if the despot says, "Then I will put you to death," I will reply, "When did I ever tell you that I was immortal?  You will do your part and I mine; it is yours to kill and mine to die intrepid; yours to banish, mine to depart untroubled."  We choose the pilot, the sailors, the hour.  Afterwards comes a storm.  What have I to care for?  My part is performed.  This matter belongs to the pilot.  But the ship is sinking; what then have I to do?  That which alone I can do--submit to being drowned without fear, without clamour or accusing of God, but as one who knows that what is born must likewise die.
Eric Hoffer	The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.
Eric Hoffer	The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Erica Jong	I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erich Fromm	...the prohibition of critical thinking at one point leads to an impoverishment of a person's critical ability in other spheres of thought and thereby impedes the power of reason.
Erich Fromm	Awareness means that the person makes that which he learns his own, by experiencing it, experimenting with himself, observing others and, eventually, gaining a conviction rather than having an irresponsible "opinion."
Erich Fromm	Faith is certainty of conviction based on one's experience of thought and feeling, not assent to propositions on credit of the proposer.
Erich Fromm	If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue--and not a vice--to love myself, since I am a human being too.
	Erich Fromm  Love as mutual sexual satisfaction, and love as "teamwork" and as a haven from aloneness, are the two "normal" forms of the disintegration of love in modern Western society, the socially patterned pathology of love.
Erich Fromm	Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character, which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love.
Erich Fromm	Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of  character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love.
Erich Fromm	Love should be essentially an act of will, of decision to commit my life completely to that of one other person.
Erich Fromm	Man has never yet ceased striving to produce and to create because productiveness is the source of strength, freedom, and happiness.
Erich Fromm	Masochism is the attempt to get rid of one's individual self, to escape from freedom, and to look for security by attaching oneself to another person.  The forms which such dependency assume are manifold.  It can be rationalized as sacrifice, duty, or love, especially when cultural patterns legitimatize this kind of rationalization.
Erich Fromm	One discovers the human being in the stranger.  In the love for the stranger narcissistic love has vanished.  For it means loving another human being in his suchness and his difference from me, and not because he is like me.
Erich Fromm	Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Erich Fromm	Respect means the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as he is. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me...To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge."
Erich Fromm	The concept and the symbol have the great advantage that they permit people to communicate their experiences; they have the tremendous disadvantage that they lend themselves easily to an alienated use. .
Erich Fromm	The real fall of man is his alienation from himself, his submission to power, his turning against himself even though under the guise of his worship of God
Erich Fromm	There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational that does not give some comfort provided it is shared by a group.
Erich Fromm	To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers.  To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth.
Erich Fromm	To understand realistically and soberly how limited our power is an essential part of wisdom and of maturity; to worship it is masochistic and self-destructive.  The one is humility, the other self-humiliation.
Erich Fromm	We must understand every ideal including those which appear in secular ideologies as expressions of the same human need and we must judge them with respect to their truth, to the extent to which they are conducive to the unfolding of man's powers and to the degree to which they are a real answer to man's need for equilibrium and harmony in his world
Erich Fromm	What the majority of people consider to be "reasonable" is that about which there is agreement, if not among all, at least among a substantial number of people; "reasonable", for most people, has nothing to do with reason, but with consensus.
Erich Fromm	While irrational faith is the acceptance of something as true only because an authority or the majority say so, rational faith is rooted in an independent conviction based upon one's own productive observing and thinking,  in spite of the majority's opinion
Erich Fromm	While it is true that man's productiveness can create material things, works of art, and systems of thought, by far the most important object of productiveness is man himself.
Erik Erikson	Nothing is more fruitless in the relationships between individuals or groups than to attempt to question the ideals of the adversary by demonstrating that, according to the logic of one's own conscience, he is inconsistent in his preaching.  For every conscience, whether in an individual or a group, has not only specific contents but also its own peculiar logic which safeguards its coherence
Erik Erikson	The strength acquired at any stage is tested by the necessity to transcend it in such a way that the individual can take chances in the next stage with what was most vulnerably precious in the previous one.
Ernest Becker	...sin and neurosis are two ways of talking about the same thing--the complete isolation of the individual, his harmony with the rest of nature, his hyper individualism, his attempt to create his own world from within himself.  Both sin and neurosis represent the individual blowing himself up to larger than his true size, his refusal to recognize his cosmic dependence.
Ernest Becker	I have had the growing realization over the past few years that the problem of man's knowledge is not to oppose and to demolish opposing views, but to include them in a larger theoretical structure.
Ernest Becker	If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought.  The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Ernest Becker	No human relationship can bear the burden of godhood, and the attempt has to take its toll in some way on both parties.
Ethel Barrymore	You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
Evelyn Underhill	Philosophers, are our stepping-stones to higher things; [they] interpret to our dull minds, entangled in the sense world, the ardent vision of those who speak to us from the dimension of Reality.
F. C. S. Schiller	Reality is like an ancient oracle, and does not respond until it is questioned.  And to attain our responses we make free to use all the devices which our whole nature suggests.
F. C. S. Schiller	That reality and that alone will be pragmatically absolute, which every one will accept as real and no one will seek to alter.  For a universe completely satisfied would not seek to change itself, and indeed could not so much as entertain the thought of change.
Fernando Flores	Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Francis Bacon	If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon	They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Beaumont	He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
Frederick Copleston	No philosophy can really be understood fully unless it is seen in its historical setting and in the light of its connection with other systems
Frederick Locker Lampson	I ask you, what is human life?  Is not it a maimed happiness--care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?
Friedrich Nietzsche	He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; One cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche	Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but the soil of his plants!
Fallacy, by Fearnside & Holther	...nobody is entitled to an irresponsible opinion on anything.
Fallacy, by Fearnside and Holther	...it is not beyond the power of every responsible person to refrain from judging the practices of other ethnic, religious, occupational, or class groups, by the principles of one's own little place in the world.  The chances are that, far from being the basic principles of human conduct, these reflect only the most parochial or transitory prejudices.
Fallacy, by Fearnside and Holther	What a man can always do is act in humility.  He can learn to regard his hypotheses as tentative aids to understanding, rather than as eternal principles or absolute dogmas.  When the pressure of events forces a man to take sides, to do what he can, he should recognize that he is engaging in a trial and error process, which, though he fail, may still afford rich experience for future guidance.
G. K. Chesterton	It is true that there is not, as pacifists and prigs imagine, the least inconsistency between loving men and fighting them, if we fight them fairly and for a good cause.
George Berkeley	...though we should grant a notion to be never so universally and steadfastly adhered to, yet this is weak argument of its truth to whoever considers what a vast number of prejudices and false opinions are everywhere embraced with the utmost tenaciousness, by the unreflecting which are the far greater part of mankind.
George Berkeley	He must surely be either very weak, or very little acquainted with the sciences, who shall reject a truth that is capable of demonstration, for no other reason but because it is newly known and contrary to the prejudices of mankind.
George Berkeley	It is a hard thing to suppose that right deductions from true principles should ever end in consequences which cannot be maintained or made consistent.  We should believe that God has dealt more bountifully with the sons of men than to give them a strong desire for that knowledge which he had placed quite out of their reach.
George Berkeley	It is not my business to account for every opinion of the philosophers.
George Berkeley	It is to me a sufficient reason not to believe the existence of any thing, if I see no reason for believing it.
George Berkeley	Only if it is so many signs provided by God for informing, admonishing and directing us is the world suited to human intelligence.
George Berkeley	This present world is not designed or adapted to make rational souls happy.
George Berkeley	Where there is so much prejudice to be encountered, a bare and naked demonstration of the truth will scarce suffice.  We must also satisfy the scruples that men may raise in favor of their preconceived notions, show whence the mistake arises, how it came to spread, and carefully disclose and root out those false persuasions that an early prejudice might have implanted in the mind.
George Bernard Shaw	A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
George Bernard Shaw	Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Fox	Revelation is not confined to the Scriptures, though they are a true Word of God--it enlightens all men who are true disciples.  The Spirit of God speaks directly through them, gives them their message, and quickens them for service.
George Orwell	The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, White papers and the  speeches of undersecretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform  mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity. Contributor's note:  What applies in the politics conceived by Orwell, applies equally in "religious institutions."
George Santayana	Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Washington	Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Gerald G. May	Nothing that is authentically spiritual can finally be justified to someone who  disagrees.
Gerald G. May	"Loving presence" with other people is not something you can measure by the number of good deeds done or your own or others' expectations met.  In some cases love is tough, and it will make people unhappy.  In other cases, your own response to love may involve a temporary pulling-back from some relationships, and it may take some time before you can return in greater fullness.
Gerald G. May	...as people deepen in their love for God and others, they become ever more open; not only more appreciative of the beauty and joys of life, but also more vulnerable to its pain and brokenness.
Gerald G. May	Be cautious about willpower and resolution; they are likely to become obstacles themselves.
Gerald G. May	Grace comes as a gift.  We can neither earn it nor make it happen.  But grace invites us to participate; it needs our involvement.
Gerald G. May	I know it is a partial understanding, but sometimes I think the chief purpose of humankind is that there can be someone to say, "Wow!"
Gerald G. May	Never assume that your spiritual life is less deep or valuable because it seems less colourful than someone else's.
Gerald G. May	Some institutions just need to wither away from their own gangrene, and your leaving may mercifully hasten                the end.Gerald G. May
	There is nothing inherent in any spiritual practice that guarantees it will be used for good and not for ill
Gerald G. May	We grieve according to how much of ourselves we have already given; we yearn according to how much we would give, if only we could.
Gerald G. May	We have come to believe that distractions are real external impediments instead of choices we make
.Gerald G. May	We have so vastly overcomplicated our lives that the homeward journey toward natural simplicity is tortuous.
Gerald G. May	What divine power ever said we should adjust ourselves to the ways of our world?  Is our society so perfect, so just, so loving that it is worth adapting ourselves to?
Gerald May	An accurate perception of reality lies beyond both traditional psychotherapy and traditional religion.
Gerhard Ebeling	...to go ahead with the critical examination of our foundations, to let everything burn that will burn and without reservations await what proves itself unbearable, genuine, true - and to adopt this attitude at the risk that much that seemed established may begin to rock....
Goethe	And until you have grasped this: "Die and be transformed;"  you will be nothing but a sombre guest on the sorry earth.
Goethe	For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life; for the human, the sacrifice of beauty.
Goethe	One opposes nothing more strongly than errors one has just abandoned.
Goethe	Nothing is more disgusting than the majority.  It is composed of a few strong predecessors, of rogues which assimilate, and of the mass of people, which trot along without having the faintest idea what they really want.
Gottfried Keller	While one feeds the intellect more and more and illuminates the head, not seldom one's heart grows cold.
Gray Temple	Being an individual is as strenuous as it is bracing.
Gray Temple	God has sought out mundane circumstances as the field for living divine humanity.
Gray Temple	In a world-view that sees us in a struggle with one another, real or symbolic, for our very lives, forgiveness of others is a death threat to ourselves because it unloads our guns and shatters our defenses.
Gray Temple  I	n hot debate, exaggeration begets counter-exaggeration.
Gray Temple	Reason...is what allows the prayerful mind to function as an antenna for God's voice.
Gray Temple	The narcissist's emotional palette has room only for rage, lust, and sentimentality.
Gray Temple	We do [the saints] no honor by refusing to find fresh language for our own experience of God's atoning work  in our lives, by inattention to our actual experience, and recognition of its distinctness from theirs.  Contriving  enthusiasm for metaphors unrecognized as such and hence literalized shores up the God-avoidant false-self.
Gray Temple	We see [true spiritual community] where people have lived with their eyes open long enough that they no longer repose much confidence in all our huff-and-puff doctrinal urgencies.  Such communities have outgrown both the submissive credulity of children and the dismissive incredulity of adolescents; they can engage the Scriptures and the Tradition with appreciative prayerful Reason.
Gray Temple  Y	ou can either judge or understand; you cannot do both simultaneously.
Gustave Thibon  T	he cause of grace dwells outside man, but its condition is within him.
H. Richard Niebuhr	The sacred is not to be identified with certain miraculous events not subject to the same type of explanations given for secular happenings; rather, the sacred is a way of talking about the value or significance of the so-called secular realm of events.  We are dealing with the same event seen from two different perspectives.
H. Richard Niebuhr	Understanding is not automatically given with faith; faith makes possible and demands the labor of the intellect that it may understand.
Hannah Whitall Smith	The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hans Leisegang	Every myth expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an eternal idea, which will be intuitively recognized by he who re-experiences the content of the myth.
Harvey Sachs	It is well known that genius is in the first place an unusually great capacity for synthesizing the fruits of other's efforts.
Hebbel	In art, as in everything living, there is no progress, but only varieties of one stimulus.
Hegel	Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.
Heine	Sentimentality is a product of materialism. The materialist carries in his soul the dawning consciousness that yet not  everything is matter; although his limited brain is convincingly demonstrating to him tht everything is matter, nevertheless his instinct is striving against it.  Sometimes a secret need is sneaking upon him to acknowledge something spiritual in things and this vague need and longing produces those unclear sensitivities which we call sentimentality.  Sentimentality is the "desperation of matter" which is not satisfied with itself; and, searching for something better, is gushing in an uncertain feeling.
Heinrich Heine	What is money?  Money is round and rolls away. Knowledge remains.
Henry David Thoreau	I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
Henry David Thoreau	If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
Henry David Thoreau	There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Henry Kissinger	Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Miller	Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
Henry Ward Beecher	A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck smooth, rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward Beecher	Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher	It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful.  And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
Herbert Spencer	It is the law of all organization that as it becomes complete it becomes rigid.
Herbert Spencer	No man is equal to his book.  All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk.
Hilaire Belloc	Of Courtesy, it is much less than courage of heart or holiness, yet in my walks it seems to me that the grace of God is in Courtesy.
Horace	I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Horace	No ascent is too steep for mortals.  Heaven itself we seek in our folly.
Horace	Power without wisdom falls through it's own force.
Ibn al-'Arabi	By knowing any name of God we know God, but not necessarily in respect of another name, nor in respect to His very Self or Essence.
Immanuel Kant	Enlightenment is man's release from all authority that would deprive him of his freedom to think without direction from another.
Indian Proverb	Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
J. Budziszewski	An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.
J. Budziszewski  G	roups are not kind to exceptions.
J. Budziszewski	Philosophy itself can be a higher mode of ignorance.
J.M. Robinson	The true aim of history...is to have one's own understanding of life called into question by the profound intentions, stances, and concepts of existence held by persons in the past, as the well-springs of their outward actions.
James W. Fowler	Greatness of commitment and vision often coexists with great blind spots and limitations.
Jacques Barzun	Truth is so difficult to seize and express that the best minds are often those able to hold two opposed and mutually tempering ideas simultaneously.
Jacques Berlinerblau	Orthodoxies need heresies, invoke heresies, and are, in part, constituted by their confrontation with the heretical.
Jacques Maritain  T	he prison of the body is good for the soul.
Jacques Maritain	To imagine that philosophical doctrines have to be changed with every scientific revolution would be as absurd as to think that the soul is transformed with every change of diet.
Jagadananda Dasa	...if a conclusion drawn from evidence does not fit in with one's theology, then it is the theology that must be brought into question.
Jagadananda Dasa	Faith has to be honest to be genuine, and such honesty has to extend to our forefathers, even those to whom we have attributed the highest spiritual perfection. It is a shock to accept that our divinities may have had human failings, but I think this is a necessary step in facing our own failings.
James Allen	You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Hillman	Anyone who rises in a world that worships success should be suspect, for this is an age of psychopathy.
James Hillman	The capacity to deny, to remain innocent, to use belief as a protection against sophistications of every sort - intellectual, aesthetic, moral, psychological - keeps the...character from awakening.
James S. Stewart	Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.
James W. Fowler	...faith [is] a particular person's way of constituting self, others and world in relation to the particular values, powers and stories of reality he or she takes as ultimate.
James W. Fowler	Liveliness and continuing growth in faith require self-examination and readiness for encounter with the faith perspectives of others.  Any of us can be illumined in our efforts to relate to the holy by the integrity we find in the faith stances of others, whether they are religious or nonreligious.
James W. Fowler	There is a terrible kind of cruelty, no matter how well intended, in demanding the denial of self when there is no selfhood to deny.
Jeffrey Raff	Teaching is quite a good thing, but only at the right time.  One's own insight and knowledge must first be integrated, or the work the self requires may never occur.
Jesse Jackson	Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
Joe Tye	Whatever you most need in life, the best way for you to get it is to help someone else get it who needs it even more than you do.

John Bunyan  A man by his conversation, may soon overthrow what by argument or persuasion he doth labor to fasten upon others for their good.

John Bunyan  A man may have company when he sets out for Heaven, and yet go thither alone.

John Bunyan  There is no persuasion will do, if God openeth not the eyes.

John Collins  To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

John Dalrymple  The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after we have resolutely set about praying some of the time somewhere.

John Dewey  Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining, is the aim in living.

John Dewey  Our thoughts of our own actions are saturated with the ideas that others entertain about them, ideas which have been expressed not only in explicit instruction but still more effectively in reaction to our acts.

John E. Carroll  ...it has been said that Francis of Assisi is the only Christian who ever lived, at least among figures publicly known.

John F. Kennedy  Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy  There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John Henry Boetker  You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

John Henry Newman Religious] mysteries are but the expressions in human language of truths to which the human mind is unequal.

John Henry Newman  ...it is that plausible, but cruel conclusion to which men are apt to jump, that when much is imputed, much must be true, and that it is more likely that one should be to blame, than that many should be mistaken in blaming;

John Henry Newman  False ideas may be refuted indeed by argument, but by true ideas alone are they expelled.

John Henry Newman  I believe in design because I believe in God; not in a God because I see design.

John Henry Newman  I do not see much difference between avowing that there is no God, and implying that nothing definite can be known for certain about Him.

John Henry Newman  In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman  No one doctrine can be named which starts complete at first, and gains nothing afterwards from the investigations of faith and the attacks of heresy.

John Henry Newman  Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with the thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

John Kenneth Galbraith  When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

John Locke  ...it is not a fault, but a perfection of our nature, to desire, will, and act according to the last result of a fair examination.

John Locke  He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought, in the first place, to prepare his mind with a love of  it.  For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.  There  is nobody in the commonwealth of learning who does not profess himself a lover of truth; and there is not a rational creature that would not take it amiss to be thought otherwise of.  And yet, for all this, one may truly say, there are very few lovers of truth for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so.  How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth enquiry: and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.  Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end.

John Quincy Adams  Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Joseph W. Browne  Truth is most often found between extremes.

Joseph W. Browne  Unlimited freedom destroys freedom.

Joseph W. Browne  Whenever we over-simplify, we falsify.

Keith E. Yandell  Philosophy is best learned by informed philosophizing.  Informed philosophizing is best learned by observing someone philosophizing and joining in the endeavor.

Ken Burns  I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're led to is a life not fully lived Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Kieran Kavanaugh  God draws near to those who come together in an endeavor to know truth.

Konrad Lorenz  One has to ask oneself what causes more damage to the soul of the human race, the delusive greed after money or the wearing haste.

Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami  Essential truth spoken concisely is true eloquence.

Kundali Dasa  ...to be awake in this world one must have a high tolerance for horror.

Kundali Dasa  It is a misconception to think that the proof of our purity of intention or purity of our action is that we will have no [negative] consequence.

Kundali Dasa  The fear of isolation from our fellows is the silent, coercive gun to the head of all members of any social system or cultish organization.  Authoritarian or cultish systems, systems not based on honoring the individual, deliberately foster this fear.

Kundali Dasa  Those who think progress in spiritual life means that one will come to some effortless, carefree stage are apt to be disappointed when faced with the increased responsibility that living in touch with one's conscience entails.

Leonardo da Vinci  The minds of men of lofty genius are most active in invention when they are doing the least external work.

Lichtenberg  The most dangerous falsehoods are truths, fairly distorted.

Lichtenberg  We are living in a century, where a fool creates many fools; a sage however, only a few wise men.

Lin Yu Tang  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lord Acton  Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Louis Duchesne  The religious authority rests upon its tradition and the members of its personnel who are the most devoted--and also the least intelligent.  What is to be done?  Are we to hope this will change?  Are we to try and effect a reform?  But this will not change, and the reform will not be carried through.  The only result of attempts of this kind is to get yourself thrown out of the window, with no beneficial results either for others or for yourself.

Louis E. Boone  Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Louis L'AmourAnger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before  - it takes something from him.

Lucy Montgomery  As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.   

M. Esther Harding  There is something exceedingly deteriorating to the character in claiming the prerogatives of a state to which one has not grown up.

M. Esther Harding  "As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be" refers to the transcendent God, surely not to man's limited conception of Deity.

M. Esther Harding  ...the cost of acquiring consciousness...is very great, and not many people are willing to pay the price.

M. Esther Harding  No real psychological relationship is possible between a dominant and a dependent individual.

M. Esther Harding  The law of the living being is that it shall grow to its fullest stature.

M. Esther Harding  The total assumptions of any two people never tally exactly, and indeed masculine and feminine assumptions differ so that a clash of opinion between husband and wife is almost inevitable sooner or
                                later -- and this on some point which they have each assumed is accepted by all right-thinking people.

M. Esther Harding  Those who have assumed the task of determining what is right for themselves can never again find "goodness" simply by doing what they are told.  Each step forward in experience--in consciousness--makes a further advance inevitable.

M. Esther Harding  Love Those who do not seek release from the bondage of the instinctive drives by the road of inner development remain the slaves of their own passionate desirousness or suffer the sterility resulting from its ruthless repression.

M. Scott Peck  All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up.  Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Mahatma Gandhi  Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Marie von Ebner Eschenbach  There are only a few honest friends, for the demand for them is very little.

Mark Caine  The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Twain  Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Martin Bernal  One should clearly distinguish between what one likes and what is likely.

Martin Luther King, Jr.  ...groups tend to be more immoral than individuals

Martin Luther King, Jr.  ...one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.  Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Marysarah Quinn  A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.

Matthias Claudius  Judge a person according to his deeds, not according to his words; for many people are acting badly and speaking excellently.

Max Weber  The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize "inconvenient" facts--I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Michael P. Nichols  A relationship matures when you can allow the other person to be who he is.

Michael P. Nichols  An empathic response is restrained, largely silent; following, not leading, it encourages the speaker to go deeper into his or her experience.

Michael P. Nichols  An understanding attitude doesn't presume to know a person's thoughts and feelings.  Instead, it is an openness to listen and discover.

Michael P. Nichols  Expectations about how and when communication should take place work not when they're right or wrong but when they're shared.

Michael P. Nichols  Few motives in human experience are as powerful as the yearning to be understood.

Michael P. Nichols  Listening is always codetermined.

Michael P. Nichols  The ability to listen rests on how successfully we resist the impulse to react emotionally to the position of the other.

Michael P. Nichols  The sharing of emotional experience is the most meaningful and pervasive feature of true relatedness.

Michael P. Nichols  The simple failure to acknowledge what the other person says explains much of the friction in our lives.

Michael P. Nichols  When people don't say much, it's less likely that they have nothing on their minds than that they don't trust the other person to be interested or tolerant enough to hear it.

Michelangelo  The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Milton Steinberg  A man shall not pray that facts be not facts.

Montaigne  How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables to us!

Montaigne  Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his  particular, private life the standard of the universe.  But he must give up this vain pretence, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

Morrie Schwartz  Every society has its own problems.  The way to do it...isn't to run away.  You have to work at creating your own culture.

Morrie Schwartz  There is no formula to relationships.  They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Morris L. West  It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have  the enlightenment or the courage, to pay the price ...  One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arma.  One has to embrace the world like a lover.  One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.  One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.  One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. 

Muhammad  The length of a man's prayer and the shortness of his sermon are a sign of his understanding, so make the prayer long and the sermon short, for there is magic in eloquence.

Nelson MandelaIf you have an objective in life, then you want to concentrate on that and not engage in infighting with your enemies. You want to create an atmosphere where you can move everybody towards the goal you have set for yourself - as well as the collective for which you work. 

Nicolas Berdyaev  Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man. 

Nietzsche  One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Niscala Devi Dasi  A person who thinks that one who has a large stock of memorized shastra has knowledge, is exactly like a person who thinks that one who has a large stock of cleaning products has an impeccably clean house.

Norman Cousins  Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

O. B. L. Kapoor  Krishna has as many forms as the devotional attitudes of the devotees and in each form His figure, attitude, and lila correspond to the attitude of the devotee.  In other words, each devotee's Krishna is his own and no one else's.

O. B. L. Kapoor  Ragatmika Bhakti is a mode of the svarupa shakti of Sri Krishna, but it is absolutely free, unconditioned and unregulated and not dependent on anything else, not even on Krishna.  Sri Krishna Himself is regulated by it and is subservient to it.

O. B. L. Kapoor  The essence of bhajana is ceaseless remembrance of the Lord.

O. B. L. Kapoor  The mere logical intricacy of a system of thought is no proof of its objective validity.  Even a very cleverly argued, highly articulated, and profoundly reasoned philosophy may be nothing more than the philosopher's own web, artfully spun out of his preconceived ideas, if it is not based on a reflection of Reality on the mirror of his soul, purified from all taints of worldly desires, or predilections.

O.B.L. Kapoor  For a Vaishnava propriety consists in regarding himself as the lowest of the lowly and acting accordingly.

O.B.L. Kapoor  It is a mistake to suppose that the predominance of emotions in the life of a devotee renders him incapable of serious philosophical thinking.  On the contrary, his understanding is so developed and purified that his grasp of things is more intuitive than ratiocinative and his knowledge of reality is more intimate and complete.  His emotions are the natural outcome of his close apprehension of Reality.

Oliver Wendell Holmes A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes  Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Oswald Wirth  The individual will is powerful only in the measure to which it is in harmony with a more general power...Let us not seek to develop the will artificially and to transform ourselves into athletes of the will...

Otto Rank  ...the difficulties arising out of conflicting opinions are, in many cases, only apparent, and due to the attempt of a biased individual to explain things according to personal prejudices, such as, for instance, the superiority of a particular culture or the preferableness of a particular style or the eminence of a particular race over all others.

Otto Rank  Spiritually the neurotic has been long since where psychoanalysis wants to bring him without being able to, namely at the point of seeing through the deception of the world of sense, the falsity of reality.  He suffers, not from all the pathological mechanisms which are psychically necessary for living and wholesome but in the refusal of these mechanisms which is just what robs him of the illusions important for living.... [He] is much nearer to the actual truth psychologically than the others and it is just that from which he suffers.

Otto von Bismarck  We should accomplish the luxury to have our own opinion.

Owen Thomas  A personal God can reveal himself adequately and fully only in and through the life of a person and human persons can fully understand only that which is personal.

Paul Brownback  To understand anything accurately the setting is of vital importance, because life is never lived in a vacuum;
                              it is never played out on an empty stage.  There is always a cultural structure of some kind influencing it.

Paul Tillich  Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to
                     receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich  People must understand that one cannot do much without having received much.  Religion is, first, an open hand
                     to receive a gift and, second, an acting hand to distribute gifts.

Paul Tillich  The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Paul Tillich  There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is
                     our lack of truth.

Paul WatzlawickFor all intents and purposes our subjective experience of existence is reality--reality is our patterning of
                              something that most probably is totally beyond objective human verification.

Paul Watzlawick  A phenomenon remains inexplicable as long as the range of observation is not wide enough to include the
                              context in which the phenomenon occurs.

Paul Watzlawick  It would appear that the creator of our world has ordained the unattained goal to be so much more
  desirable, romantic and ecstatic than it turns out to be when we get there.

Peace Pilgrim  Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Pearl Buck  I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to
                     work.

Peter Marshall  Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Post  Remember that your goal in attempting to change someone else's behavior should always be to build a better
                    relationship with that person, not simply to be critical for its own sake.

Peter van Inwagen  What we call human history is nothing more than the working out of the consequences of the fact that
                                 some people have chosen not to do what they were created to do.

Plato  ...the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly
               governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Plato  It is hard to find the maker and father of the universe, and having found him, it is impossible to speak of him to all.

Pope John XXIII  Let each day bear its burden, use each day's grace.

Proverbs 9,6  Abandon the company of simpletons and you will live, you will advance in understanding.

R. Havard  Pain provides an opportunity for heroism; the opportunity is seized with surprising frequency.

Radhakrishnan  ...the Indian philosophers first arrive at a system of consistent doctrine and then look about for texts of an
  earlier age to support their position.  They either force them into such support or ingeniously explain them
                             away.

Radhakrishnan  We want hard and straight thinking and not soft or emotional or sentimental thinking.  Philosophy should say
                           what is true.  It does not matter whether it pleases or irritates.  It must prove logically derived
                           conclusions and not defend at all costs pious wishes and pleasing imaginings.  It would be unphilosophical to
                           endeavor the refutation of any hypothesis by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and
                           morality.

Ralph Hodgson  Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  In the epochs of human thought, history demonstrates the difficulty of keeping clear of overbearing
                                      obsessions.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  Once men have enslaved themselves to words that are given objectivity by common credence, it is
                                      all but impossible to get them to believe in any other world than the illusory world of outgrown
                                      concepts.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  The inertia of the human mind checks the spirit of free inquiry because the average man resents the
                                      task involved in the consideration of new ideas, new duties, and above all, of new obligations. 
                                      Resentment is intensified if the new ideas make social, moral, or religious demands.  He is indeed
                                      very prone to consider any suggestions which call for readjustment or moral courage as scandalous
                                      in the extreme.  He can also find an opprobrious word for it.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  The persistence of the mechanistic notion of explanation must be charged to the inertia of the human
                                      mind, that conservativeness of thought which leads us to cling to false ideas, once established, rather
                                     than to readjust our minds to new ones, the implications of which we do not at first apprehend.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  The time is at hand when we should forsake the positivistic folly of compartment reality which seeks
                                      to hang explanation on a single and less important peg.  The world of matter, wonderful as it is, is not
                                      the most wonderful fact of existence.  More and more clearly it appears that we cannot afford to
                                      ignore the factuality, the importance, and the explanatory function of human values in a
                                      comprehension of the universe.

Ralph Tyler Flewelling  We must be in some measure timeless in order to know time, changeless to be aware of change

Ralph Waldo Emerson  A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which
                                       constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson  There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.  When the mind is braced by labor and
                                       invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.  Every
                                       sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
 to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
                                       beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
                                       garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because
                                       you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 

Ramakrishna So long as the child remains engrossed with its toys, the mother looks after her cooking and other household
                         duties.  But when the child no longer relishes the toys, it throws them aside and yells for its mother.  Then the
                         mother takes the rice pot down from the hearth, runs in haste, and takes the child in her arms.

Randall Collins  Communication must always jump above any one person's particular viewpoint to a bridge of generality
                           connecting one person's reality with another's.

Renouvier  To will is to sustain a particular thought when one has other thoughts equally sustainable; in short, to choose a
                    goal and hold on to it by attending.

Richard J. Foster  Humility means to live as close to the truth as possible; the truth about ourselves, the truth about others
                             the truth about the world in which we live.  It does not mean groveling or finding the worst possible things
                               to say about ourselves.

Richard J. Foster  To be spiritually fit to scale the Himalayas of the spirit, we need regular exercise in the hills and valleys of
                              ordinary life.

Richard J. Foster  Too much introspection can harm rather than help.

Robert B. Cialdini  Once a stand is taken, there is a natural tendency to behave in ways that are stubbornly consistent with
                                the stand.

Robert C. Solomon  There is more than enough nonsense in the world, and it is the job of philosophers, to the best of their
                                  abilities, to make sure that there is no more of it.

Robert Coles  The one whom many denounce becomes known by others as a person who dared speak his mind, speak the
                         unspeakable, hence someone to be taken seriously, even sought out, approached through his printed words
                         or on the occasion of any lecture he gives, and even in person for a conversation, an exchange or ideas.

Robert Collier  One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or
                          false.  It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind. 

Robert Johnson  Fanaticism always indicates unconscious uncertainty not yet registering in consciousness.

Robert Sokolowski  Part of the terror of death lies in the fact that our imagination turns blank in the face of it.

Robert Strobel  Religions only serve the needs of peoples of various cultures as they see the requirements of their time and
                           place in history; however, they have a dark side. 

Romans 10, 14-15  But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed?  And how can they believe in him of
whom they have not heard?  And now can they hear without someone to preach?  And how can people preach unless they are sent?  As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!"

Rudolph Otto  ...the rational and moral is an essential part of the content of what we mean by holy or sacred: only it is not
                            the whole of it.

Rudolph Otto  The degree in which both rational and non-rational elements are jointly present, united in healthy and lovely
                          harmony, affords a criterion to measure the relative rank of religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche  The window determines how much light enters the house, even if the moon's radiance fills the east and
                                  the west.

Rumi  God says, "My heavens and My earth encompass Me not, but the heart of My gentle, believing, and meek servant
  does encompass Me."

Ruth Harrison  We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is
                          really effective.

Saint Augustine  God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

Saint Teresa of Avila  With what friendship we would all treat each other if our interest in honor and in money could but
  disappear from earth!

Samuel Johnson No man ever yet became great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson  Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson  No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
   

Samuel Johnson  Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need
                                          reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge  I believe in the one and only saving Church, of which at present I am the only member.

Sandy Donovan  By focusing on helping others achieve their goals, we get back tenfold, and achieving our own goals somehow becomes easier.

Sarah Bernhardt  Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami  We can't judge our present state by its ecstasy content.

Satyanarayana Dasa  ...a person intent on spiritual advancement should give up attachment within the heart for those who
                                      are opposed to God and should abandon conceptions that contradict the revealed scriptures.

Satyanarayana Dasa  ...as one progresses higher, the path leading to Krishna narrows.  A teacher who appeared favorable
                                      at a lower stage may be found to impede us at a higher stage...If such a teacher is not given up, that
                                      will again check our progress.

Satyanarayana Dasa  ...true religion, like truth itself, is universal, and it is only apparent followers that invent factions and
                                      create ill feelings between sects--often to facilitate some personal agenda of their own.

Satyanarayana Dasa  ...when Krishna wants to bless someone, He supplies him with proper discrimination.

Satyanarayana Dasa  Even if one possesses the Truth, one has to present it in a captivating manner, otherwise hardly anyone
                                   will pay attention.

Satyanarayana Dasa  If the purpose of a principle is not understood, it may become perilous and worthless.

Satyanarayana Dasa  Krishna is not a magic helper who touches your head and makes you perfect.  He makes you fight and
                                   earn progress or advancement.

Satyanarayana Dasa  One who flees in the face of adversity cannot realize the Supreme.

Satyanarayana Dasa  There is no sin other than to consider oneself independent of God's will.

Satyanarayana Dasa  We can understand others to the extent that we know ourselves.

Schiller  I think, you can't trust every inner voice which is perceived in the heart as a warning.  To deceive us, the spirit of lie
               often sounds like the voice of truth and spreads delusive oracles.

Schlegel  What we call good association is often merely a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Shirley Lord  What really matters is what you do with what you have. 

Shukavak Dasa  I suggest that if Chaitanya Vaishnavism is going to have a lasting position and a positive impact on the
                           West, then it must intellectually move beyond the literalism by which it entered the West and begin to
                           develop new forms of intellectual expressions and perspectives that are a part of the Western intellectual
                           and academic traditions.

Shunryu Suzuki  When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But
                            usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things
                            outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the
                            right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

Simone Weil  A time has to be gone through without any reward, natural or supernatural.

Simone Weil  We must welcome all opinions, but they must be arranged vertically and kept on suitable levels.

Sir Arthur Eddington  We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature
                                    that which the mind has put into nature.

Sir Joshua Reynolds  There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Spinoza  An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a distinct and clear picture thereof.

Spinoza  God must possess infinite attributes in infinite degree of which we know only a few, and these imperfectly.

Spinoza  Men think themselves free because they are conscious of their volitions and desires, but are ignorant of the causes
                 by which they are led to wish and desire.

Srila Prabhupada  Everyone has to cleanse his heart by a gradual process, not abruptly.

Srila Prabhupada  Everyone should feel proud of his particular type of devotional service, but that does not mean that other
  types of service are inferior.

Srila Prabhupada  Except for work in Krishna consciousness, all activities are abominable because they continually bind the
                               worker to the cycle of birth and death.

Srila Prabhupada  Intelligence is the immediate next-door neighbor of the spirit soul.

Srila Prabhupada  Less intelligent persons cannot take to Krishna consciousness.

Srila Prabhupada  That is the proof of a Krishna conscious man--one who has lost all inclinations for material sense
                              gratification, although the desires are present.

Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.2  A learned man takes the essence of knowledge from all places, just as a bumblebee collects
                                              honey from each and every flower.

St. Bernard  He alone is God who can never be sought in vain; not even when He cannot be found.

St. Ignatius Loyola  It is not an abundance of knowledge that fills and satisfies the soul but rather an interior understanding
                                 and savoring of things.

St. Ignatius Loyola  Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.  All
                                other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him fulfil the end for which he is
                                created.  From this is follows that man is to use these things to the extent that they will help him to attain
                                his end.  Likewise, he must rid himself of them in so far as they prevent him from attaining it.

St. John of the Cross  All the delights and satisfactions of the will in the things of the world compared to all the delight that is
                                    God are intense suffering, torment, and bitterness.

St. John of the Cross  The mystical experience of God causes a kind of love-sickness that makes it impossible for the soul
                                     to find happiness anywhere but in God alone.

St. John of the Cross  Think nothing else but that God ordains all, and where there is no love, put love, and you will draw
                                    out love.

St. John of the Cross  Those who love something together with God undoubtedly make little of God, for they weigh in the
                                     balance with God an object far distant from God.

St. John of the Cross  Through the practice of one virtue all the virtues grow, and similarly, through an increase of one vice,
                                    all the vices and their effects grow.

St. Teresa of Avila  ...I was allowing myself to get lost and striving to save others.

St. Teresa of Avila  ...the love of God does not consist in tears or in this delight and tenderness, which for the greater part
                                    we desire and find consolation in; but it consists in serving with justice and fortitude of soul and in
                                    humility.  Without such service it seems to me we would be receiving everything and giving nothing.

St. Theophan  Do not put entirely out of your mind the idea that within you there is always present something which is not
  good, which is always ready to divert you from the right way and to mislead you.

St. Thomas Aquinas  There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Stephen Covey  Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your
                            life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good
                            can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Swami B. P. Puri Maharaja  The essential characteristic of the spiritual master...is that he possesses knowledge of the three
                                              categories:  sambandha, abhidheya, and prayojana.  This is why the Chaitanya Charitamrita
                                              says:  "one who knows the truth about Krishna is qualified to be guru."

Swami B. R. Sridhar Fine theistic intelligence is the outcome of good fortune which comes from above sukriti  ; it is not
                                      self-acquired.  That fine intellectual inner direction and guidance can only come from the nirguna or
                                      transcendental plane.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Joy is the innate requirement of every soul, every living thing.  And so the position of a particular
                                     religious conception may be judged according to the development of rasa that may be traced there.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Our attainment of the goal is not insured simply by increasing the number of times we repeat the
                                      name; only by increasing the quality will we reach success.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Our attitude towards Krishna should be like that: whether or not He extends His gracious hand
                                      towards us, it is our duty to surrender unto Him.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Our policy should be to make the best use of a bad bargain.  Somehow or other, we have already
                                      come here, so now we have to utilize our time and energy in such a way that with the least
                                      exploitation we can get out of this world.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Prestige is the greatest and most subtle enemy of the devotee of Krishna.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  This is the all-conquering conclusion.  The highest conception of the Ultimate Reality must also be the
                                      highest form of ananda, ecstasy.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Within this world there is always a fire burning; but there is no necessity of extinguishing the fire,
                                      because we have nothing to do with the world that will be burned into ashes by the fire.

Swami B. R. Sridhara  Writing is also kirtan.  The cultivation of Krishna consciousness may even be more intense when we
                                      are engaged in writing about Krishna.

Swami Tripurari  ...it is the impartiality of the individual soul to the dualities of this world that serves as the passport for
                                leaving it, but his spiritual partiality or individual preference that serves as his visa to the spiritual world of
                                Krishna's play.

Swami Tripurari  Although love is lawless, in material life its unbridled pursuit amounts to ignoring obvious laws of nature,
                             which in the least render such love unenduring.

Swami Tripurari  First philosophy and theology theory/tattva  , then love realization/bhava  .

Swami Tripurari  It is not that we cannot say anything about God, but that not enough can be said to fully describe him.

Swami Tripurari  Observing the principle of beginningless karma, God is just.  Were he not so, there would be no question
                             of mercy, which involves occasionally overriding justice.

Swami Tripurari  Only in a worldview that advocates transcendence of the world as its goal is there is some hope for peace
                             on earth and the distinct possibility of attaining residence in the plane where there is no war.

Swami Tripurari  People more readily accept a powerful image of the divine rather than a playful one when conceiving of the
                            God of gods.  However, play requires power.  The more power one has, the more one can play.

Swami Tripurari  Spiritual progress does not mean that Krishna comes and dances outside your window.  It means that you
                             start to observe in yourself the good qualities you see in other people, even non-devotees.

Swami Tripurari  That which is righteous is to some extent relative to the performer, time, and circumstance of any action.

Swami Tripurari  The desire or ideal of people determines their conception of God.

Swami Tripurari  The exercise of one's faith that is not born of scriptural study and saintly association is defective.

Swami Tripurari  The highest point of religion touches the lowest point of spirituality.

Swami Tripurari  True morality beyond convention is the result of seeing God in the world.

Swami Tripurari  We cannot avoid serving God.  We are given the choice of either serving him in full awareness and with his
                             guidance or unknowingly under the control of his maya.

Swami Tripurari  While the ignorant and materially attached person can through association with devotees take to the path
                             of bhakti, bhakti proper stands on the ground of detachment and knowledge.

Swami Vedavyasananda  Every smallest incident of life can be a help on the way, if you have an inner desire for spiritual
                                         advancement.  If you don't have the inner desire, even happenings of major importance cannot
                                         lead you on.

Swift  Where a genius appears, the fools fraternize.

T.S. Eliot  The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Talasiga  Humility hears the river's depth And then discusses River dust.

Tertullian  God is a body...for spirit has a bodily substance of its own kind.

The Cloud of Unknowing  When I consider the innumerable faults of word and deed that I myself have committed in the
                                            past out of lack of knowledge, it seems that if I wish to be pardoned by God for my ignorant
                                            faults I should always charitably and mercifully pardon the ignorant words and deeds of others.

Theodore Parker Real Christianity] would make us revere the holy words spoken by "godly men of old," but revere still
                               more the word of God spoken through Conscience, Reason, and Faith, as the holiest of all.

Theodore Parker  He that loves God and man, and lives in accordance with that love, needs not fear what man can do to
                               him.

Theodore Parker  It must be confessed, though with sorrow, that transient things form a great part of what is commonly
                             taught as religion.  An undue place has often been assigned to forms and doctrines, while too little stress
                               has been laid on the divine life of the soul, love to God, and love to man.

Theodore Parker  It seems difficult to conceive any reason, why moral and religious truths should rest for their support on
                               the personal authority of their revealers, any more than the truths of science on that of him who makes
                               them known first or most clearly.

Theodore Parker  The first book of the Old Testament tells man he is made in the image of God; the first of the New
                              Testament gives us the motto, Be perfect as your Father in heaven.  Higher words were never spoken.

Theodore Parker  The history of the Christian world might well be summed up in one word of the evangelist--"and there
                               they crucified him," for there has never been an age when men did not crucify the Son of God afresh.

Thomas ã Kempis  Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are
  not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Thomas Aquinas  Beware of the man of one book.

Thomas B. Macaulay  The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

Thomas Bokenkotter  Belief in God...is not a decision made once and for all, but has to be constantly risked and constantly
                                     renewed as doubts continue to assail us.

Thomas Carlyle  A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Thomas Jefferson  Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must approve the
                                homage of reason rather than of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Merton  We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not 
  a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Moore  One of the most effective forms of repression is to give a thing excessive honor.

Thomas More  ...where money is the only standard of value, there are bound to be dozens of unnecessary trades carried on,
                             which merely supply luxury goods or entertainment.

Unknown Author  If money goes, money comes.  If money stays, death comes.

Unknown Author  Life is what happens to us while we're making plans.

Van A. Harvey  ..the new view of history...is grounded in an awareness that history does not consist in external facts but in
                             the purposes and meanings of selves.

Van A. Harvey  All rational claims are...appeals to other persons' minds, and one's respect for these persons is
                            proportionate to the degree that he gives them to understand what it would mean to accept or to reject
                            these claims.  Candor is not a rationalistic ideal; it is the necessary condition for all responsible dialogue.

Van A. Harvey  I believe that the most important thing about the Gospels...is that they provide pictures and imagery within
                           which the imagination, so to speak, can dwell and that can be the basis for a call to a renewal of one's life. 
                           In an important sense, it is religiously irrelevant whether this narrative is historically accurate or not.

Van A. Harvey  If anything has been learned from the comparative study of religion it is that myth and legend are the most
                            natural forms of expression for the veneration of extraordinary founders, teachers, and saints of religion.

Van A. Harvey  Religious symbols are images taken from one sphere of historical experience and used to relate oneself to
                            the divine mystery which cannot be otherwise known.  The divine can be experienced for oneself through
                            them but they cannot be forced on another person or culture.

Van A. Harvey  The demand to be open to transcendence is posed anew by every change of circumstance, and no past
                            authentic decision necessarily guarantees a future one.

Vincent van Gogh  Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vivekananda  God descends to earth to found a religion. And the devil just follows him, to organize it.

Voltaire  A fanaticism composed of superstition and ignorance has been the sickness of all the centuries.

Washington Irving  Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but
                                great minds rise above them.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  Since the truth transcends not only what each of us has apprehended, let alone  formulated, but
                                       also what all of us together have, or can, therefore every observer may in principle learn something
                                       of truth from every person--and especially, of course, from every group--in human history, past and
                                       present.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  ...a religious creedal affirmation may be in its presuppositions faulty, or culturally specific, or
                                       poetically imaginative, but in its substantive meaning true and universally valid...to understand what
                                       anyone is saying, one must get beyond, not become bogged down in, the conceptual framework in
                                       which he is saying it.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  A religious stance that excludes intellectual integrity is ill

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  A sentence, once it is uttered, stands halfway between the objective world and the world of
  persons; there is a danger, if it be treated in isolation, of one's coming up with half-truths about man.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  Intellectual inquiry is an art, of combining confidence about what one knows with humility about its
                                       feeble approximation to full truth on the matter.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  It is requisite, now that we are all pushed towards endeavouring to understand humanity at large and
                                        to think less parochially, that we develop larger and more subtle ideas, and adjust our categories to
                                        become more inclusive and therefore more adequate.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  One could be tempted to say of scripture, as has been said of religion as a whole: that it raises
                                        people not above the human level; only to it.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  Shared symbols are about the most powerful factor in binding a group together; divergent symbols
                                       are about the most powerful force in generating conflict between groups.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  The history of religion has at times been mistaken for the history of its symbols; but this is
  superficial.... The true history of religion, not yet written, is the history of the depth or shallowness,
                                       richness or poverty, genuineness or insincerity, splendid wisdom or inane folly, with which men and
                                       women and their societies have responded to such symbols as were around them.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  Truth is embodied not in words but in persons and in their living.

Wilfred Cantwell Smith  What is proffered in scripture is transcendent truth.  The words that we read are "deep in mystery,"
                                        and present us with a mystery that we must struggle to explore--that it is our privilege to explore.

Wilhelm Herrmann  A word can have for men the significance of a word of God only when it brings him to true
                               self-examination under the circumstances in which he stands at the moment.  Every religious thought
                                 which does not become intelligible to us in this way remains foreign to us, though we may give it out
                                 ever so defiantly as the expression of our own convictions and excite our imagination ever so strongly
                                 with it.

Will Durant  Freedom is the supreme good; for without it personality is impossible.  Life and knowledge are today so
                      complex, that only by free discussion can we pick our way through errors and prejudices to that total
                    perspective which is truth.

Will Durant  How many a debate would have been deflated into a paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their
                      terms!

Will Durant  Men prepare themselves with life-long study before becoming authorities in physics or chemistry or biology; but
                      in the field of social and political affairs every grocer's boy is an expert, knows the solution, and demands to be
                      heard.

Will Durant  Philosophy is to history as reason is to desire: in either case an unconscious process determines from below the
                      conscious thought above.

Will Durant  The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the
                      mind.

Will Durant  Truth changes her garments frequently like every seemly lady  , but under the new habit she remains always
                      the same.

Will Durant  Where there are a thousand faiths we are apt to become sceptical of them all.

Will Durant  Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Will Garcia  The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all
                     you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

Will Rogers  Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

William Blake  Always give without remembering; always receive without forgetting.

William C. Chittick  The differences in spiritual levels among human beings derive to a large extent from the different degrees
                                  to which the light of the intellect penetrates the veil of the ego.

William Ellery Channing [The cause of truth] can never suffer by admitting to Christian fellowship, men who honestly
                                         profess to make the Scriptures their rule of faith and practice, whilst it has suffered most severely
                                         by substituting for this standard, conformity to human creeds and formularies.

William Ellery Channing [The] authority, which we give to the Scriptures, is a reason, we conceive, for studying them with
                                         peculiar care, and for inquiring anxiously into the principles of interpretation, by which their true
                                         meaning may be ascertained...Now all books, and all conversation, require in the reader or hearer
                                         the constant exercise of reason; or their true import is only to be obtained by continual comparison
                                         and inference...Every proposition is linked with others, and is to be compared with others; that its
                                         full and precise import may be understood.  Nothing stands alone.

William Ellery Channing  If religion be the shipwreck of understanding, we cannot keep too far from it.  On this subject,
                                        we always speak plainly.  We cannot sacrifice our reason to the reputation of zeal.  We owe it to
                                        truth and religion to maintain, that fanaticism, partial insanity, sudden impressions, and ungovernable
                                        transports, are any thing rather than piety.

William Ellery Channing  All willingly avail themselves of reason, when it can be pressed into the service of their own party,
                                        and only complain of it, when its weapons wound themselves.

William Ellery Channing  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing  We have no gratitude for those who would force upon us a doctrine which has not sweetened their
                                        own tempers, or made them better men than their neighbours....If any light can pierce and scatter the
                                        clouds of prejudice, it is that of a pure example.

William James Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general
                           head.

William James  ...a large acquaintance with  particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas,
                          however deep...

William James  Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.

William James  He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James  If a creed makes a man feel happy, he almost inevitably adopts it.  Such a belief ought to be true; therefore it
                          is true--such, rightly or wrongly, is one of the "immediate inferences" of the religious logic used by ordinary
                          men.

William James  It is as if the total universe of inner life had a sort of grain or direction, a sort of valvular structure, permitting
                          knowledge to flow in one way only, so that the wider might always have the narrower under observation, but
                          never the narrower the wider.

William James  No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter now good one's sentiments may
                          be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain
                          entirely unaffected for the better.

William James  Nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of
                          taking part in anything like them ourselves.

William James  Temperaments with their cravings and refusals do determine men in their philosophies, and always will.

William James  The commonest vice of the human mind is its disposition to see everything as yes or no, as black or white, its
                          incapacity for discrimination of intermediate shades.

William James  The divorce between scientific facts and religious facts may not necessarily be as eternal as it at first sight
                          seems, nor the personalism and romanticism of the world, as they appeared to primitive thinking, be matters
                        so irrevocably outgrown.  The final human opinion may, in short, in some manner now impossible to foresee,
                        revert to the more personal style, just as any path of progress may follow a spiral rather than a straight line. 
                          If this were so, the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily
                          useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which the secular scientist at present so
                          confidently announces it to be.

William James  The larger part of all we see comes out of our heads.

William James  The mere outward form of inalterable certainty is so precious to some minds that to renounce it explicitly is
                          for them out of the question.  They will claim it even where the facts most patently pronounce its folly.  But
                          the safe thing is surely to recognize that all the insights of creatures of a day like ourselves must be
                          provisional.  The wisest of critics is an altering being, subject to the better insight of the morrow, and right at
                        any moment, only "up to date" and "on the whole."  When larger ranges of truth open, it is surely best to be
                        able to open ourselves to their reception, unfettered by our previous pretensions.

William James  The theorizing mind tends always to the oversimplification of its materials.  This is the root of all that
                          absolutism and one-sided dogmatism by which both philosophy and religion have been infested.

William James  The truth is that in the metaphysical and religious sphere, articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our
                          inarticulate feelings of reality have already been impressed in favor of the same conclusion.

William James  Things reveal themselves soonest to those who most passionately want them, for our need sharpens our wit.
                          To a mind content with little, the much in the universe may always remain hid.

William James  To learn the secrets of any science, we go to expert specialists, even though they may be eccentric persons
  and not to commonplace pupils.

William James  Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one
                          might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in
                          harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

William James  When we cease to admire or approve what the definition of a deity implies, we end by deeming that deity
                           incredible.

William James  Where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane logic which should say that faith
                          running ahead of scientific evidence is the 'lowest kind of immorality' into which a thinking being can fall.  Yet
                          such is the logic by which our scientific absolutists pretend to regulate our lives!

William Kingdon Clifford  In regard to the sacred tradition of humanity, we learn that it consists, not in propositions of
                                          statements which are to be accepted and believed on the authority of the tradition, but in
                                          questions rightly asked, in conceptions which enable us to ask further questions, and in methods
                                          of answering questions. 

William Kingdon Clifford  No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that
                                          we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford  When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil
                                           fruits can possibly alter that.

William Kneale  The essential point is that the thinking which leads to the formation of rational opinion, like any other
                            thinking worth the name, discovers something independent of thought.  We think as we ought to think
                            when we think of things as they are in reality; and there is no other sense in which it can be said that we
                            ought to think so-and-so.

William Matthews  The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles...are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

Wisdom 7,28  ...for nothing is acceptable to God but the person who makes his home with wisdom.

Yehudi Menuhin  I think it important to cultivate an attitude of acceptance and even gratitude as far as critics are concerned.
                             Hard though it may seem, I think one should do this particularly when they are negative and when they find
                             fault. I think there is always a grain of truth in adverse criticism though that truth may not be what the critic
                             suspects. ...In any event, it is far more profitable to apply oneself critically, than to malign the poor critic.
                             That is always a complete waste of time. If you feel you have been misjudged, it is better to avenge
                             yourself on the stage by setting out to belie or disprove whatever it is he or she may have said about some
                             performance. Of course, it is pleasant to be praised, it is even pleasurable. But this should not be taken at
                             its face value. Criticisms, good or bad, are useful only insofar as they teach something.

Yiddish proverb  Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.

Z'ev Halevi  Cultural habits for their own sake put men in bondage.

Z'ev Halevi  Such is human nature that what is old and tried must be the genuine article and what is new must be alien and
                      false.

Zoroaster  The opportunity of doing mischief occurs a hundred times in a day, and that of doing good but once a year.