To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

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.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

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

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.