Anthony de Mello Quotes

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

12 years ago all I wanted to do was sing the right songs and get emotionally wound up, but now I realize my job is to make Christ the center of attention each night.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.