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.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I have no human feelings.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

Lord, help my poor soul.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

God is everywhere.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

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.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

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

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

What is past is prologue.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

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 don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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.

I answer only to God.

Pray, and let God worry.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.