God is the same everywhere.
I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
If you want to be happy, be.
Love those you hate you.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Zen has no business with ideas.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
What you possess, you lose.
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
