The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

God always has patience.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

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

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

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.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.