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

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

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.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

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

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

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

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

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

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

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

Lord, help my poor soul.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.