The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

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

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Pray, and let God worry.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

My message is that God is a good God.

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.

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.‘

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Religions get lost as people do.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

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.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.