In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Our God is a forgiving God.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

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.

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

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

The little man is still a man.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

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

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

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.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Saints need sinners.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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