Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Consequences are unpitying.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.