“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”

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.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.

I speak and speak but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.