All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Theology is unnecessary.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Intimates are predestined.

In the real world, children love me.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.