In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

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 am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I just want to lobby for God.

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.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Religion is just mind control.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

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.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I have always believed in God.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

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.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

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.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

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.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

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.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

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.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Saints need sinners.

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.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

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

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.