There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Saints need sinners.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

God wants to bless us where we are.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

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

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

God has entrusted me with myself.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.