We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.