Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Suddenly I realized we must take care of things just because they exist.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Woman is the daughter of falsehood, a sentinel of hell, the enemy of peace.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

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