“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”

“Courage, dear heart.”

“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S Lewis

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” – C.S. Lewis

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

“There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice.”

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.” – C.S. Lewis

“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” – Bob Marley

“I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.”

“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”

“In this great future, you can’t forget your past.” —No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

“All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they’re here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb… herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can’t find no reason.” “All them say is, ‘it make you rebel’. Against what?”

“As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.”

“Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.”

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

“Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.”

“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”—I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin’ (1973)

“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.”

“Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.”

“Have no fear for atomic energy, ’cause none of them can stop the time.”

“I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.”

“I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.”

“If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.”

“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again.”

“Love the life you live, live the life you love.”

“Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.”

“My feet is my only carriage.”

“My future is righteousness.”

“Put your vision to reality.”

“Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.”

“Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”

“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!” —Could You Be Loved, from the album Uprising (1979)

“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.”

“Truth is the light, so you never give up the fight.”—Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976).

“When one door is closed, many more is open.” —Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation

“When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can’t take the peace.”

“When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.”

“You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.”