We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I like to take it easy.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

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 think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.