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

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Sin is geographical.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

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