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.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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.

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.

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

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

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

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.

Devotion is a social force.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.