A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

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 have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.