Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
God is not a diversion.
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.
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.'
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
