All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.