I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Truth is a pathless land.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.