What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‚Red Storm Rising‘.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

My message is that God is a good God.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

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

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.