My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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.

God does not play dice.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

God always has patience.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

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.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

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

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

People love conspiracy theories.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.