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

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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 only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I believe in being an innovator.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

God has entrusted me with myself.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

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.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

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.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.