I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

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.‘

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

There is no wealth but life.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

The good is the beautiful.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.