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.
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.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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.
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.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
