I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I have always believed in God.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

I love being in a courtroom.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.