Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

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

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

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

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

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

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

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

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.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Our God is a forgiving God.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

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.

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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Silence is a source of great strength.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.