As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

My life is my message.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Science is nothing but perception.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

There is nothing so stable as change.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

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.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.