The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

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.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

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.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Hate has no place in the house of God.