Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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.
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.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
