When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
