The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I never hold a grudge.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

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.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Money does not change people, people change.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.