“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.

If you keep a clear vision for your future, it will pull you like a magnet through your toughest times.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?