I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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

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.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The Gospel has never changed.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.