Do not ask for love from your neighbor, for if you ask and he does not respond, you will be troubled. Instead, show your love for your neighbor and you will be at rest, and so will bring your neighbor to love....
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
As we move through this beautiful and troubled world, may we vow to be a beacon of peace, a fearless carrier of respect and lovingkindness for all life, a teller of truth, a voice for justice, a protector of those who are vulnerable or targeted. May the power of...
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help--the only ones. from The Grapes of Wrath
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor—spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow humans, giving...
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on...
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
As I was lying on a gurney in pre-op awaiting knee replacement surgery three days before Christmas, before the “happy drugs” were administered, I noticed a painting on the wall beside the gurney. It was rather nondescript, a field of blue flowers in a garden of rocks...
The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so.