David Alan Royster

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

I’ve forever wanted a woman who loves like a soldier and fights like a poet. Always with unfailing faithfulness, always for the yearning in her heart.

It’s important to remember where you came from; it’s the easiest way to locate where you are.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

What was never lost can never be found.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

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.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

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.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Zen has no business with ideas.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.