The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

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

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

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

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

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

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.

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.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

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

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

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

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

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

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.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

All of my writing is God-given.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?