"to believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting"
"those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men"
"honesty is better than any easy comfort"
"if you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it you don't feel at home there? do fish complain of the sea for being wet? or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had no always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures...."
"i suspected that all the yearnings for i knew not what that i had
ever felt - when autumn leaves were burning in the twilight, when wild geese flew crying overhead, when i looked up at bare branches against the stars, when spring arrived on an april morning - were in trust yearnings for him. for god. i yearned towards him"
"the banner of my independence dipped, lying in the dust and myself kneeling, but somehow proudly still."
"to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon"
"i think there is a great deal to be said for having one's deepest spiritual interest distinct from one's ordinary duty as a student or professional man...sacred things may become profane by becoming matters of the job"
"that something we long for, whether it be an island in the west or the other side of a mountain or perhaps a schooner yacht, long for it in the belief that it will mean joy, which it never fully does: because what we are really longing for is god"
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