Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Religion is just mind control.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Life well spent is long.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Peace begins with a smile.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

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

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

I have always believed in God.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

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

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

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.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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