"If you subdue something, doesn't that imply it needed to be put in subjection? If something's in perfect harmony, would it need to be put in subjection...?" < more>

"They would come in to the king and tell him whether he would be positive that day, and win friends and influence people, or whether he should go back to bed and pull the covers over his head..." < more>

"I've gone back and talked to the eyewitness accounts; I've talked to the people this all happened to... I've done the work and I'm going to lay this all out for you..." < more>

"If you've got supernatural powers to be able to see through things into another world, surely you can see through a guy putting on a Groucho Marx mask..." < more>

"Religion focuses on getting a big fat outer man, when what you need is a big fat inner man, and then he just begins to bust out all over..." < more>

"...and they don't commend themselves to you like that at all. I've got a Muslim neighbor who can quote the Koran in Arabic but he doesn't know what he's quoting...!" < more>

"They have these little shrines they worship in and offer sacrifices in, and they're always put upon the high places. That's, in fact, where the church steeple came from...." < more>

"Now, his conscience wouldn't let him come into our building. You see, you can have bad information in your conscience. Your conscience isn't your problem; it's the information you put in it..." < more>

"I remember in Grant Park in 1979, just after I moved to Chicago, the Pope held up a wafer and said, 'This is your Saviour,' and I thought, 'He must have already gotten into the hooch!'" < more>

"I think, 'What is this guy doing -- he's nuttier than a hatter!' And all down through that passage... the 'vocabulary of unbelief' coming out of that guy's mouth..." < more>

"What does away with the partial is the perfect. But what's in part? What I know. Knowledge. The only thing that does away with partial knowledge is full knowledge..." < more>

"He's not communicating to any of us through circumstances, inner impressions, events, physical things, etc. He uses words..." < more>

"...to have dominion over all the animal creation and to literally be able to control the ordinances of the heavens from earth... What's incredible is that this means there's a way for man today to do these types of things if only he can discover it!" < more>

"You're literally going to be able to walk up and physically look down into Hell right there at the bottom of the Dead Sea..." < more>

"Your seed's going to go down into a strange land for 400 years, and then they're going to come out, and when they come out, I'm going to put them here..." < more>

"So, the idea that the distance between there and heaven is as far as a guy could walk in a thousand days, well they went, 'Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.' And you know what happened? Slit! When you disagree with Mohammed he comes in with the centaur and converts you and eliminates your opposition..." < more>

"When Israel came out of Egypt, they were redeemed first by blood, then by power... They were literally redeemed from a false religious system... And they were redeemed by the blood of a lamb..." < more>

"I don't know if... they've got a post office where you go to get a passport. That's not the point. The point is that's the way we operate here... the same terminology is described for how they operate out there..." < more>

"To my right sat a middle-aged woman in a floor-length flower-print dress with shades of orange and brown. Her hair was thick, chestnut, wavy, her face big-boned in a raw, middle-aged party-girl way. She tilted her head back to watch the tributes roll past. Her mouth hung open..." < more>

"He had people going around who had pledged themselves to kill him. He says he had the sentence of death and that he lived with this sense everywhere he went..." < more>

"Today there is only one baptism, and it does not involve a drop of water... It all goes back to the church's failure to discern the difference between those two gospels... These two messages were never meant to be blended together..." < more>

"'You know, I didn't have anything real to gain by changing from what I was doing to this. I was making good money...'" < more>

"They are always followers, aren't they? They have no intelligence, no intellect. They can't discern the difference between fact and fancy. They can't tell the difference between the past, the present and the future..." < more>

"In your self-talk, you're tough on yourself. When you live under a performance-based acceptance program you don't get any help..." < more>

"She meant civilize them; teach them there are times when you don't get your way and you must live in discipline and self-control..." < more>

"'They couldn't tell me anything I didn't already know. I knew all about the kingdom program, but contrariwise, I could tell them something they didn't have. I had some revelation they hadn't gotten yet...'" < more>

"For centuries it was almost entirely lost sight of. In fact, until brought to the fore... in the early part of the last century, it is scarcely to be found... throughout a period of sixteen hundred years..." < more>

"All my books that I brought into the country were confiscated and not returned to me. But the package containing all the school lessons were not touched or even inspected. I had a dilemma. Who would I find to preach those lessons in mandarin...?" < more>

"It changed the entire face of Western civilization and made the Renaissance into something it could never have been before. And the liberty that you and I have today as Americans and the reason that America has been the lighthouse of freedom and a different kind of example to the whole planet..." < more>

"He created everything else, but the problem is with the next two verses; the cults always ignore the context..." < more>

"At the end of the chapter, you see He turns around and asks them one question, and then they're afraid to talk to Him anymore..." < more>

"'It lit the flame in me' You read that and you think, 'Maybe I don't want my kids reading this kind of stuff.' Understand, he's the guy everybody thinks is the one who ought to tell you what the good in life is...!" < more>

"'You can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it,' and they came back with, `We gonna' keep tryin', we gonna' keep tryin'...`" < more>

"Progress is automatic; it's inevitable. But where (science) sees us going from the puddle to paradise, the Bible says were going from paradise to the puddle..." < more>

"When I said that, a gigantic hand snatched me out of this nothing, and I was lying in the dressing room bleeding, blood flowing through my veins..." < more>

"My educated guess of how it will happen is he will lie in state and have a state funeral and then, all of a sudden, he'll just come up out of the coffin and say, 'Hi guys, I told you I was God...'" < more>

"I've actually had people tell me, I worry about worrying. They get all balled up, so they want answers that are complicated..." < more>

"I'd try to convince you you were your body so you'd pamper it, bathe it, clothe it, exercise it, feed it, educate it, make investments for it and live for it. That's what I'd do..." < more>