The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

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

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Religions get lost as people do.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I read the Bible every day.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

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.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.