Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
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.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
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.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
