I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. Im very sensitive to it.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.
Music brought me closer to the idea of God.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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.
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, The ten-thousand things and I are of one substance.
What you possess, you lose.
