How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

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.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

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.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Truth is a pathless land.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.