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 simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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 as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.