You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
God is not a diversion.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
