Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Real living is living for others.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.