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

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

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.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

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

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.