To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.