A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

What goes up must come down.

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.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Life is warfare.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.