I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

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

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

God always takes the simplest way.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

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

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.