Joyce Mattingly

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

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

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

The concept known as bal tashchit – ‘Do no destroy’ – has a special significance in Jewish tradition…We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong…We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.