The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

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.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

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!‘

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Heaven means to be one with God.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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

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

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?

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

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.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.