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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

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

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

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.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

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.‘

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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.

Confine yourself to the present.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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 try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Truth is a pathless land.

I never make conscious decisions.

God has entrusted me with myself.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.