I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

My reputation grows with every failure.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

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

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

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.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

They say miracles are past.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.