Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Plato was a bore.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

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

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Language is the dress of thought.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.