He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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.

I read the Bible every day.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I like to take it easy.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

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

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.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray, and let God worry.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Never find fault with the absent.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.