Joyce Mattingly

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.

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.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.