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

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

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

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

God’s grace is amazing! We’re saved by grace – God’s undeserved favor – and we live by grace, which is also God’s power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it’s all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.