Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

God to me is love.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.