Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
Nature is pleased with simplicity.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.