Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Africa is on the rise.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

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

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

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.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

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

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.