The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Desire is the very essence of man.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

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

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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.

God to me is love.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

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.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.