That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Pray, and let God worry.

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.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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

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

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.