The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Saints need sinners.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

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

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

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

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

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.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Where love is, there God is also.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

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

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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.

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

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.