All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

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

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I just want to lobby for God.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

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.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

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.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Faith never makes a confession.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.