Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.