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 one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
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.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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.
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.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
