Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
