The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
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.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
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.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.