When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

When your girlfriend broke your heart, don't even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.