Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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.

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

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Fear is the mother of morality.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

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

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The truth is lived, not taught.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

No man was ever wise by chance.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.