God wants to bless us where we are.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

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

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.