Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

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.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

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.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

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.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

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

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

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.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

God wants to bless us where we are.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.