You just have to have a simple faith.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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

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.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

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

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.