I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Life is our dictionary.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

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.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.