Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The Gospel has never changed.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

What’s done can’t be undone.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.