It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

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

Who, being loved, is poor?

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Truth is a pathless land.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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