Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.