There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
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.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth