The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

God’s first creature, which was light.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

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.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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.‘

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

God always takes the simplest way.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Where love is, there God is also.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.