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.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

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

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

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.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

I answer only to God.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.