Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.