The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

My message is that God is a good God.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Never mistake motion for action.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

God’s first creature, which was light.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

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.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.