Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I like to feel blonde all over.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

God made me and broke the mold.

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.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I like a man who grins when he fights.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

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.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.