I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

God always has patience.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

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

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.