While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
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.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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.