Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.