To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Don’t be the majority, just hoping for your name to be called, because it won’t happen.

Although mankind is made from mere dust of the ground, we are made in the image of God. As we emulate His image, we have value and purpose.

Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.

I’d like to meet the devil some night, ’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.