Meaning

“When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure. That’s when your story gets really good.”

“Communities don't need to be big in following; they need to be rich in substance.”

“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”

“It was really driven by a great wish to search for truth as a ground for “peace of mind and a meaningful existence.””

“道是式—能。”

“That means I did something right as a person, which is ultimately the most important thing.”

“Jesus Christ alone can fill this empty space, because he is the fulfillment both of pagan human longing and of Jewish hopeful faith.”

“لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“But it’s also important to remember that it will do us little good to wire the world if we short-circuit our souls.”

“My life means nothing, either theoretically or practically, unless I am a member of a community.”

“For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.”

“Somebody told me once that you know you’re in the right work when your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”

“In the case of history what matters is its meaning; its medium is events, and its vehicle is literature.”

“Alam semesta dari perspektif manusia adalah cerita. Hidup kita adalah cerita.”

“Unity, visible and invisible, is not an accident of the Gospel. It is the Gospel.”

“It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category-mistake.”

“The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.”

“ความสุขสำหรับเรา คือ การให้ การแบ่งปัน อยากเห็นคนอื่นมีความสุข มันเริ่มเป็นความสุขที่เกิดจากภายใน”

“Consider what effects which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.”