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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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

Effective action is always unjust.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‚Happy Birthday.‘

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

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

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

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.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I’m a Christian by choice.