The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

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

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

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.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

God’s first creature, which was light.

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

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.