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.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I love the sea.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

God always takes the simplest way.

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.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

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.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

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.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

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.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.