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“Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.”
― Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System

“The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.”
― Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry

“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.”
― Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market

“I think most persons who shall have tested it will accept this as the central point of the illumination: That sanity is not the basic quality of intelligence, but is a mere condition which is variable, and like the humming of a wheel, goes up or down the musical gamut according to a physical activity; and that only in sanity is formal or contrasting thought, while the naked life is realized only outside of sanity altogether; and it is the instant contrast of this ‘tasteless water of souls’ with formal thought as we ‘come to that leaves in the patient an astonishment that the awful mystery of Life is at last but a homely and a common thing, and that aside from mere formality the majestic and the absurd are of equal dignity.”
― Benjamin Paul Blood, The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy