Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

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.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.