We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. " So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. " An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.