Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.