religion

"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."

"You become a slave to the song. It becomes a spiritual experience."

"Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a plea for special favors n…"

"Jealousy’s vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. W…"

"A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer."

"The soul is subject to dollars."

"A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair."

"There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place."

"Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may …"

"My God, my God, have mercy on me, and on my poor people!"

"...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong."

"God is at home and is content, it is we who are looking and are not at one in ourselves."

"Climate change is by no means the sole or even the most significant symptom of the changing interests and values of the West. Still, only societies with high levels of cultural amnesia – that have for…"

"I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them."

"...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit..."

"You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them."

"A god that can be understood is not a god."

"It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great."

"This is all I can report. The Old, Established Way is not enough. Or as I say, perhaps I am not qualified. Worse still, it may be that my prayer training was insufficient or improper. At any rate, it …"

"There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls."