The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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.

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?

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

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

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

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

Water’s never clumsy.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

For greed all nature is too little.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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

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.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.