Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

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.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

All religions have been made by men.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Truth is a pathless land.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

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

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.