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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

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?

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

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

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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

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.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Any top-level athlete, it’s always the same. There’s always that hint of arrogance there… It’s hard to be humble when you’re the best.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.