Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
