How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

The good is the beautiful.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Nature is not human hearted.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Faith never makes a confession.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.