Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
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.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
God is not a diversion.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
