The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.