I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
If I am walking with two other men each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak He is strong.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still I believe in God.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars millions of them twinkling in the night sky all with a message of unity part of the very nature of God.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Therefore I am sure that this my Coronation is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future and for the years I may by God's Grace and Mercy be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
A speculator is a man who observes the future and acts before it occurs.
The future author is one who discovers that language the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language will serve him in winning through to his way.
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options as we have in the past.
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now and what was reserved for the future?
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Why not invest in the future of music instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this for the future. That's the way I see it.
Use your lives wisely my friends and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.