I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

You just have to have a simple faith.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

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

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

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

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

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.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

There is so much that people take for granted.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

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 think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.