Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Life is short, the art long.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

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.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I love life because what more is there?

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.