Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Truth is a pathless land.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The soul is healed by being with children.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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.‘

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Forgiveness is God’s command.