Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Get rid of grudges and negativity in your thoughts by replacing them with positive thoughts. You deserve a beautiful life.

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig's blood.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.