When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Devotion is a social force.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.