For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I serve God.

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

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

God always wants us to be growing.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

God to me is love.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.