God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

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.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.