Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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.
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.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.