The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

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

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

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.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

The little man is still a man.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

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

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.