Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
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.
