The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

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

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

God always wants us to be growing.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Money can’t buy life.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

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

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.