The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
