God does not play dice.

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.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Nothing can come of nothing.

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

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

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

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