I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

You can stroke people with words.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

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

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.