The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.

It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

The trodden path is the safest.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.

Take up the White Man's burden.

The silente man still suffers wrong.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. Its use: to turn our will to His will. Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.