Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

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

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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.

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

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

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

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

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.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

‚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’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Every day I pray about all I do.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

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

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Theology is unnecessary.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

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