Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

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.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I’ve said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I’m against ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and that we’re going to end this policy.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

The lie is a condition of life.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

Lord, help my poor soul.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.