I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Life is a dead-end street.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.