Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived

when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision—the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.