God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.