God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

They say miracles are past.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

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.

Trust, but verify.

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.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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.

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.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

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

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Religions get lost as people do.

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

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.