Hate has no place in the house of God.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Theology is unnecessary.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I love life because what more is there?

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.