In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

All you need is love.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Syllables govern the world.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Children make your life important.

I know love is the answer.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.