Misha Collins Quotes

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?

There is no body will go to hell for company.

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

We are not responsible for the behavior of anyone that goes contrary to what we teach, any more than the Pope of Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury or a religious leader who teaches moral law and values can be charged with the errant behavior of a parishioner or congregant who may violate their moral teachings. That is on the individual.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.