A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
