In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

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.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.