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.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
