Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Prayer is a turning to God.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
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.
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.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
