Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

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.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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 believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

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.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The art is long, life is short.

Hell is other people.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Life is wasted on the living.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?