Men willingly believe what they wish.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

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

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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!

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

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.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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.

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

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

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

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.