I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

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.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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

It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‚palpable‘ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

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

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

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.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

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

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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

I just want to lobby for God.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.