Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
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.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.