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.

Heaven means to be one with God.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

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.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

On all the peaks lies peace.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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 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.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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!‘

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

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.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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!

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.