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.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

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.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

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

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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

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.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

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.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

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

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

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

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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

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.

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

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

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.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

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.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

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

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

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.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.