The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
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.
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.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
