Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
If we could get all religions together on a common purpose-the elimination of jealousies and the things that make men covet another’s belongings, we would be a long way toward the goal of outmoding war, depression and poverty.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
Zen has no business with ideas.
I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.
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.
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.
