Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

My message is that God is a good God.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Time stays, we go.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

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

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Every man is his own hell.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.