Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I draw near to him at such a time. Yet he taught mankind but imperfectly how to live; his thoughts were all directed toward another world. There is another kind of success than his. Even here we have a sort of living to get, and must buffet it somewhat longer. There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.