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

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

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.

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.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

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

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

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

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

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.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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

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