Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

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

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

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 a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.