I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I read the Bible every day.

Religion is just mind control.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

God always takes the simplest way.

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.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

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.

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!

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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.

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 think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

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

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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.

Fear is exciting for me.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.