Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Faith without doubt is addiction
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
