Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

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.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

God always takes the simplest way.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Faith never makes a confession.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

God is everywhere.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

God wants to bless us where we are.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.