You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

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.'

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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.

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.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

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.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.