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

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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

All generalizations are false, including this one.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

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

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.