At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Where love is, there God is also.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

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.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.