We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
I thank God for my handicap, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.
-Helen Keller
Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
-Elif Safak
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
-Helen Rowland
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger