Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.