It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.