In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Saints need sinners.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

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

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

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

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

God to me is love.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

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

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

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.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.