The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

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

Heaven means to be one with God.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.