God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Life well spent is long.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.