Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

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.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

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.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

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.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

We are all alike, on the inside.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

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.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.