If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

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

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

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

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

There is nothing so stable as change.

I am a Catholic.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.