Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

You just have to have a simple faith.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.