Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
