One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.