Saint Theresa of Jesus

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Our God is a forgiving God.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of 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.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

What you possess, you lose.

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.