Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A useless life is an early death.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘