The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

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

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.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Where love is, there God is also.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.