Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

I don’t think I get angry.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.