Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

To live is to think.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

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.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.

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.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.