Van Jones Quotes

He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

There's something cool, even on a philosophical level, about understanding the bigger picture and exploring faith, if you will, in a very real way. The more you delve into it and give into it, you just have to have faith. The more you invest in faith, wherever it takes you, some of those jagged edges become less sharp.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of — throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

And so I remember moving to LA, going to the Islamic center in Hollywood and feeling like the cultural element wasn't what we were operating from as much as the spiritual one, and that was really cool. That was really good for, you know, my growth and my development.

Nowhere else have I grown more in my faith than in the midst of my family.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.