Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture—such as I was when I made my pond—is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.