We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

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.

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

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.