Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

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.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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?

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

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.