To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

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

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Pray, and let God worry.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Where love is, there God is also.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

God to me is love.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

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.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

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

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.