I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

God always takes the simplest way.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

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.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

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.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.