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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

I will send a shower of roses.

I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart.