Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

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.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

We do not judge the people we love.

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

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.