Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

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.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

God always wants us to be growing.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Man is a universe within himself.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.