The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

It is important to remember yourself.

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

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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

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.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

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?

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

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

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

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

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.