No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
Your talent is Gods gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
