Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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 cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
