Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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

It’s important to love in hip hop.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

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

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Saints need sinners.

Religion is just mind control.

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

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

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.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

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.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

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

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Religions get lost as people do.