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.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

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.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

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

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

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.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

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

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.