In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

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

God to me is love.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

They say miracles are past.

Where love is, there God is also.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Being is the great explainer.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I am a Catholic.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

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.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.