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

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

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.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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.

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

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

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.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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.

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.