If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe in being an innovator.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Enemies are so stimulating.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

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.