Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

A man who broods on evil is as bad as a man who does evil, if he is no more.

An error does not become truth be reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter’s divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

Every place we visited in India we saw worshiping children. In every gathering the children took part. They were worshiping God with their entire being. They were singing and clapping hands. They were praying and pleading to God. I was moved to tears many times as I observed them in heartfelt surrender to Jesus Christ their Lord.

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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.