Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God has no religion.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?