Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
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.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Prayer is a turning to God.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
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.
