Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

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

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

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

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.