Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Truth is what works.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Sin is geographical.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Every man is his own hell.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.