Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Theology is unnecessary.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

All art is quite useless.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.