I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Prayer is a turning to God.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
