Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

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.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

Religions get lost as people do.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

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

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.