… anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

As Buddha said, All that we are is determined by our thoughts.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not...

The Mormon definition of life makes the earthly sojourn basically an educative process. Knowledge is necessary to mastery, and the way to deification is through mastery, for not only does education...

... only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains - claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom...

My uncle is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.

The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.

The real Holy Spirit is not an electrifying current of ecstatic energy, a mind-numbing babbler of irrational speech, or a cosmic genie who indiscriminately grants self-centered wishes for health and...

God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21

A true leader not only demands submission; he is an example of submission by submitting to the Lord and to those in authority over him. Everything

Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "Beautiful boys."

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring - clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked...

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...

Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.

... O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

Light in love is joy. Light in faith is hope. Light in compassion is mercy. Light in gratitude is contentment. Light in understanding is awareness. Light in intellect is discernment. Light in...

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.

Light gave birth to the existence. Existence gave birth to reality. Reality gave birth to eternity. Eternity gave birth to time. Time gave birth to life. The past gave birth to the future. The future...

In one sense, faith is about embracing this bigger story and allowing our own story to become part of it.

Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Allow yourself to become aware of the nonphysical reality that you are a part of. Reach out to the angels or occupants of this higher invisible plane. Know that you can access guidance from those...

to remind ourselves of our intention, which is to get higher and

In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.