What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
