There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.
I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
