I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Lord, help my poor soul.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.