Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that which God wishes them to say.
He had a great deal of respect for the views of scholars and people who had little self or vested interest.