“Here is the candle extinguished and there the living lamp of the Sun! Do mark the difference between the one and the other!”

“It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of one single candle-St. Francis of Assisi”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. that’s all you ever have to do. i live by this.”"But what if you don’t know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you’ve never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?”

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ”