But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

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?

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

A true man hates no one.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Words are loaded pistols.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

If you wished to be loved, love.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?