St Catherine of Siena

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

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

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.

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

The essence of Buddhism is, if you can, to help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

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.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

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.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.