The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

When I was in S Club Juniors I had very long, straight, brown hair and I never really played around with it. I was very young and the team told me that I had to leave it alone, so the minute S Club Juniors disbanded I decided to cut it short.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain that we may lose the way.