I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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

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

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Saints need sinners.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Faith never makes a confession.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Every day I pray about all I do.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.