Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

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.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.