I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Respect the burden.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.