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

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

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.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

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

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

There is no wealth but life.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

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.

Information is not knowledge.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

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

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

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.