It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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.

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.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

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.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

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.

God is everywhere.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

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.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

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.

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

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.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

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

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Faith never makes a confession.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

God always takes the simplest way.

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.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.