You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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.
