Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

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.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Truth is a pathless land.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.