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

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

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

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

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

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.

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.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

God is everywhere.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Our God is a forgiving God.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

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.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

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

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

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.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.