It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I believe in being an innovator.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

And yet it moves.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

I serve God.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.