We feel and know that we are eternal.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I’m selfish.

Theology is unnecessary.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.