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

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Nature abhors annihilation.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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!

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.