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

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

My message is that God is a good God.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Every day I pray about all I do.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.