Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.
What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
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.
There’s nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain’t going to have no troubles.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Be kind to all creatures; this is the true religion.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
