John Burroughs quotes

" The secret of happiness is something to do. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. " # Belief # Nature # Mind

" A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. " # Blame # Failure # Time and Time Management

" How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. " # Age and Aging # Books - Reading # Work

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. " # Opportunity # Women # Age and Aging

" The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. " # Miracles # Love Ended # Spirit and Spirituality

" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. " # Preachers and Preaching # Morality # Example

" I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. " # Books - Reading # Friends and Friendship # Life and Living

" "But we must learn it sooner or later. There surely comes a time when the mind perceives that this world is the work of God also and not of devils, and that in the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal; in fact, that God is here and now in the humblest and most familiar fact, as sleepless and active as ever he was in old Judea. This perception has come and is coming to more minds to-day than ever before--this perception of the modernness of God, of the modernness of inspiration, of the modernness of religion; that there was never any more revelation than there is now, never any more conversing of God with man, never any more Garden of Eden, or fall of Adam, or thunder of Sinai, or ministering angels, than there is now; in fact, that these things are not historical events, but inward experiences and perceptions perpetually renewed or typified in the growth of the race. This is the modern gospel; this is the one vital and formative religious thought of modern times." (p. 50-51) " # Music

" Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. " # Science and Scientists # Belief # Christians and Christianity