A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant superficial and uninformed.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men while envy is base and belongs to the base for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him through them you will realise Him.

Slave to no sect who takes no private road But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace unless we solve it through God unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

God made everything out of nothing but the nothingness shows through.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

To us also through every star through every blade of grass is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

If the grace of God miraculously operates it probably operates through the subliminal door.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me he can work through anyone.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing but only by God the Creator made known through Jesus.

Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space with all other matter.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.