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?

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I read the Bible every day.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.