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.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
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.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite 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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.