For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

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.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Devotion is a social force.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?