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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.
Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
You don't need to crave anything, because you are already everything. It's all here, right now.
Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.
The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.
You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
... the Eucharist profoundly enables the grace of God to be received with all its glories and blessings.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.
The soul’s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.
God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.