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

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.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

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

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I have always believed in God.

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.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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.

God’s first creature, which was light.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

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

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Where love is, there God is also.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

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

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.