Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I have always believed in God.

I have wondered about time all my life.

My message is that God is a good God.