Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

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

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I love life because what more is there?

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

I just want to lobby for God.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Theology is unnecessary.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Silence is a source of great strength.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

All you need is love.

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

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.