I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

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!

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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