He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I believe in singing.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

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

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

We are not at war against Islam.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

A useless life is an early death.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

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.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.