Forgotten is forgiven.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

You can’t do something forever.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

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.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.