James > James's Quotes

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.”
― Philip Shepherd, New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century