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The very emergence of the contradiction in our consciousness is at the same time the silent prophecy of its solution… that which knows or feels division or discord must be a unity which transcends division or discord… it is a consciousness in which the contradiction or discord vanishes.
We have in us the power to transcend the bounds of our narrow individuality, and to find ourselves in that which seems to lie beyond us.
Morality or the moral life may be described as that solution of the contradiction between man’s higher and lower nature which is accomplished by the transformation of the lower into the organ or expression of the higher.
It is the endeavor by the constant exercise of spiritual activity, to appropriate that infinite inheritance of which we are already in possession.
Virtue is, like health, the harmony of the whole man.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Every instrument and tool, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there. But in things which are put together by nature, there abides in them the power which made them, therefore, the more correct it is to reverence this power. Think that if you live and act according to its will, everything in you is in harmony with intelligence.
Does anyone do wrong? It is to himself that he does the wrong.
What need is there of fear, since it is in your power to inquire what ought to be done?
But often in the world’s most crowded streets, but often, in the din of strife, there rises an unspeakable desire after the knowledge of our buried life, a thirst to spend our fire and restless force in tracking out our true, original course; a longing to inquire into the mystery of this heart that beats so wild, so deep in us, to know whence our thoughts come and where they go.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Indeed it is well said, “In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.”
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive?
Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.
A happy life is joy in the truth.
It is foolish to be surprised when a fig tree produces figs.
A man should always have these two rules in readiness: the one, to do only whatever the reason of the ruling and legislating faculty may suggest… the other, to change his opinion, if some other person sets him right, and moves him from an opinion. But this change of opinion must proceed only from a certain persuasion, as of what is just or of common advantage, and the like, not because it appears pleasant or brings reputation.
