Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

My life is a struggle.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Life must be lived as play.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.