God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
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.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Prayer is a turning to God.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
