I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

God always has patience.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I always make my dreams into goals.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

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

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I always wanted a family.

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

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

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

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.