In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

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

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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

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

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

God has entrusted me with myself.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I am a Catholic.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.