There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

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.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

God created man, but I could do better.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

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.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Religion is just mind control.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

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

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

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

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.