To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

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.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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

I think governments can’t do much.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.