Cal Thomas Quotes

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Secularism produces a bored soul

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.