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

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Time stays, we go.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

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.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.