Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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.
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.
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.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
God is not a diversion.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.