Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

History is more or less bunk.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

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.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lord, help my poor soul.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I serve God.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

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?

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Saints need sinners.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

My message is that God is a good God.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

What is past is prologue.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.