God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Theology is unnecessary.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

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

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

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

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

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

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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 can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

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

Forgiveness is God’s command.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.