I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

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’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

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.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

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.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.