Words worth keeping

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.