What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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.
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.
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.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Devotion is a social force.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
