When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.

Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.