The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

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.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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

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.

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

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

I answer only to 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.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.