It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

The less you know, the more you believe.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.