I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

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.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Faith never makes a confession.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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 am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

My message is that God is a good God.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.