The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

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

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

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.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

God is everywhere.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.