Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Our God is a forgiving God.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

There is no wealth but life.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

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.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

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

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.