Quotes on Deep Thought

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

We are more alike than unalike.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

You will find God in the church of your choice.

Nothing puts life into men like a dying Savior.